Fully Vaccinated, AGAIN

Yesterday I wrote a long piece in which I listed 13 coronavirus lies and errors, plus one human rights atrocity, all of which were perpetrated by the establishment. This morning I took it down. I felt like the world didn’t need another angry blog post.

I hear phrases which I believe are from God, and two days ago, I heard one that surprised me: “This is a world of love.”

The world is full of true hate now. People who used to find each other merely annoying are now completely ready to put each other in camps and exterminate each other. So how can this be a world of love? I think I know the answer.

It has become very obvious to me that God’s children and Satan’s children experience the world differently. I often say we share the same planet but live in different universes. The children of darkness are losing their minds over politics and coronavirus, and so are many nominal Christians. Meanwhile, people who are close to God are much happier. Many are experiencing the best years of their lives. The years 2020 and 2021 were wonderful for me, and it looks like 2022 will be even better.

There is always symmetry in the supernatural. God and Satan. Jesus and the Antichrist. Magic, which is evil, and the supernatural tools of Christians, which are good. It makes sense that Satan’s children, which means all the people who are not involved with Jesus, would start experiencing hell on Earth while God’s children would start doing better than ever.

The day before the phrase came to me, I woke up and felt love flowing through me to God. This is something for which I have been praying for years. When Jesus visited me, his love bombarded me as though I were standing next to a heat lamp, and I believe I’m supposed to radiate love, too. Sometimes it flows, and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m not Jesus. When I feel it flowing, I try to hold onto it and make it last. I stayed in bed for a couple of hours.

The Revelation says a spirit of murder will be released on Earth during the apocalypse, and it’s already here. It has been at work for several years. If that is true, then surely God will counter it by pouring love through people who can carry it.

So it should be a time of love for Christians who keep praying for correction and deliverance. Meanwhile, it’s a time of hate for people like Howard Stern, who is so afraid of death he says people who won’t accept vaccination should go home and die. It’s a time of hate for a lot of leftist celebrities, as well as leftist Tweeters who make fun of unvaccinated people who get sick and pass away.

The apocalypse is a centrifuge. It separates darkness from light.

I think what I heard came from God. I get tired of being provoked. Many times, I have removed my own remarks from the web. I would like to become a constructive force.

Speaking of vaccines, I got a booster today. We are inundated with disinformation and misinformation, so sometimes it is not possible to make intelligent decisions about coronavirus. I made the smartest decision I could.

I hate the lies the establishment has told us about strategies for fighting the disease. I am also very critical of the vaccines. They are not good at all. They do a very poor job of preventing infection. They do nothing at all to prevent infected people from spreading coronavirus, although somehow, many Americans have gotten the baseless impression that they do. They don’t do a good job of preventing deaths among high-risk people. On top of that, credible research suggests mRNA shots damage DNA. There are a couple of worthwhile benefits to shots, though.

First, they make it considerably less likely that certain people will have severe symptoms. This seems to be true, although one wonders what they will tell us tomorrow. Some people get vaccinated and boosted and die anyway, but it looks like shots save some lives. Now that I have a wife, I feel obligated to try to live. Not that I was excited about the prospect of dying with a tube down my throat. As I have often said, give me a meteor strike to the head any day. Second, boosters shut the covid police up and make life easier for those who comply. It’s less of a hassle to get on a plane or cross a border, for example.

Third, I guess, if you’re up on your shots, people are less likely to celebrate when you die. That’s a depressing truth. The link I just posted goes to a story about Meat Loaf’s new detractors.

A lot of leftists are making fun of Meat Loaf because they think he died unvaccinated. They’re saying, “Now we know what he wouldn’t do for love.” They’re putting variations of this unclever remark next to their real names on Twitter, which shows you how much progress the spirit of murder has made. Imagine being proud of being cruel to the family of a person who just died. Isn’t that what made leftists hate the Westboro Baptist Church?

I got the shot mainly for love. Interesting parallel. Meat Loaf may have gotten it, too. The buzzards and hyenas tearing at his body don’t know; they’re just assuming he didn’t because he was against mandates. He was old, overweight, and severely asthmatic, so he may have been in the huge group of people shots and boosters do not help at all. Maybe he took two or three shots and still died. I don’t think leftists like hearing about it, but that happens a lot. They like to think they can protect themselves, but they’re fooling themselves. Some people can reduce the risk by taking shots. For others, nothing works.

I don’t trust the mRNA shots, so I got another J&J shot. I believe it is likely to provide some protection in the unlikely event I get Delta, which is very rare now. I believe it may possibly provide some protection if I get Omicron, which is everywhere. I know there is a blood clot risk from the shot itself, but it’s very low, and I already beat it once.

The one thing I’m sure the booster will do for me is this: it will make traveling to Ireland less of a hassle. Ireland does not require vaccines now, but if you’re vaccinated, you can go there without taking a PCR test. These tests give false positives, and they can also be inconvenient. It’s best to travel between Wednesday and Friday, because you may have trouble getting a PCR on a weekend. If you take your test on a Monday or Tuesday, things will go more smoothly.

It is unlikely that I would have a problem getting a test result early in the week, but I might.

Why would I need a test if I’ve already had the shot? Because by Ireland’s standards, I was unvaccinated until this afternoon. To be exempt from testing, you have to have had your last vaccine shot or booster within 270 days of travel. My vaccination was a long time ago.

Rhodah and I are hoping to meet in Ireland soon, so now we have one less thing to worry about. Assuming I don’t die from blood clots. THE SCIENCE says the risk disappears after 28 days. Hope that’s true.

We chose Ireland because the rest of Europe is convinced I want to move my wife from inexpensive Zambia to an expensive country, permanently. They think she will never leave. I’m not sure who they think will pay her bills if she moves to France or Switzerland. Not me! If I was going to move her, I would put her in Turkey or the Dominican Republic. I wouldn’t send her to a place where breakfast costs $20.

Rhodah went to the Irish Embassy in Lusaka, and they were extremely kind to her. She met the ambassador. They said they would get her in. Ireland is a slam dunk, and tourists give it raves, so Ireland it is.

Now we just have to motivate ourselves. We have gotten very complacent. We talk on video chat all day, and our lives are easy.

I wonder what, if any, side effects I’m going to have. Last time, I seemed to feel a little tired after the shot. I don’t remember any other problems. I was almost unable to feel today’s shot, but my arm started hurting afterward, which is weird. By the time I got in the car, it was over. I walked right out after the shot. No waiting period. Remember when they used to make us wait, to see if we would faint or something? Not any more. No one cares. We’re over it, I guess. I didn’t even get the information sheet my consent form said I had received. I checked the box that said I had received and read it, and they didn’t bother giving it to me, because no one cares any more.

I wasn’t excited about getting a booster, because I believe it’s extremely likely they will start using mandatory boosters to control us eventually. I don’t want to get in the habit so I’m afraid, after too many authoritarian strings are attached, to stop taking the shots. I prayed about it, though, and I felt God was telling me to go ahead. The mark of the beast may involve vaccinations, but it’s not here yet.

Now if I get sick and die, I’m going to start a Twitter account while I’m expiring, and I’m going to needle celebrities who said I was going to be safe.

Okay, I won’t do that. But it’s a funny idea.

Doctors Reluctantly Admit What Bright Children Knew a Year Ago

Meant to publish this earlier in the week.

As a man with a spousal visa application pending, I am always interested in coronavirus news. Today there are some interesting stories.

First of all, I guessed wrong when I said Omicron should be pretty much over with by January 15. I based that guess on what happened in South Africa, but the US and other countries are taking longer to recover. It’s now looking more like the first week of February.

Okay, I still did very well for a layman who bases his predictions on a few skimmed news articles. About 10 days ago, “experts” were still making it sound like the world had ended.

It also looks like people all over the world are going into Florida mode. Even the timid, self-emasculated government slaves known as Australians are being allowed to socialize more normally. Some of them are, anyway. Kansas City has abandoned its unrealistic contact-tracing program. Israeli doctors are admitting we are not seeing a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” saying the difference in the infection rate between vaccinated and unvaccinated people is miniscule. They’re also expressing surprise that vaccines didn’t end the pandemic. Some places are abandoning vaccine passports.

How surprised should we be?

The pandemic can’t go away through vaccination unless we have great vaccines or cures and nearly everyone uses them, forever. A couple of years ago, I thought our vaccines could work, but that was before I knew something everyone ought to know by now: dogs, cats, rodents, deer, hippopotamuses, and, presumably, all sorts of other animals are infected. People who don’t think clearly are asking whether they can transmit the disease to humans. If interspecies transmission isn’t possible, how did deer get it? Of course it’s possible.

If every person on Earth were magically cleared of the virus this minute, the pandemic would come back soon, because animals would give it to us. We can’t vaccinate all the deer. We’re not going to vaccinate all the dogs. It’s not just an epidemic; it’s a panzootic.

We were able to get rid of smallpox because we didn’t have to worry about vaccinating the entire mammal population of the world, and because the vaccine was good. Now we have a bunch of crummy vaccines and at least billions of carriers we can’t cure or prevent from spreading the disease. On top of that, there is no reliable cure.

A CDC page says this: “cats, dogs, bank voles, ferrets, fruit bats, hamsters, mink, pigs, rabbits, racoon [sic] dogs, tree shrews, and white-tailed deer can be infected with the virus.” Hamsters are being euthanized because they are susceptible, so that means rats and mice are carrying it, too. Have I seen proof? No, but come on.

In late 2020, CNN made the patently stupid remark that infection was rare in animals, as though it were meaningful. They should have known that if some animals had it, others were going to get it. Maybe animal infections were rare back then, because the pandemic was young, or maybe there hadn’t been enough testing to reveal the full extent of the problem, but here’s the remarkable fact CNN overlooked: contagious disease case numbers grow over time.

I am not at all reluctant to suggest that CNN’s people didn’t understand this, even though it’s the single most obvious fact about contagious diseases. It’s what “contagious” means. Journalists are incredibly dumb about science. They are just not bright. It’s terribly unfortunate that we rely on a body of unintelligent people to give us information about anything.

Scientists are defending their vaccines, pointing to other shots that have low efficacy rates. Flu shots, for example, often miss the mark. Supposedly, this means our covid vaccines are okay. Their defensive arguments are clearly wrong. The smallpox vaccine has a no-infect rate of 95%. The polio vaccine is 99% effective. Indisputably, there are such things as good vaccines. Covid vaccines have a no-infect rate not far from zero, which, by any reasonable scientific standard, is not high. The best you can reasonably hope for after being vaccinated and boosted is that when you get sick, you won’t have severe symptoms, and they can’t even guarantee that. They used to tell us severe cases were impossible for the once-vaccinated, and a couple of months down the road, they sang a totally different tune.

Right now, there are only two intelligent reasons to get vaccinated. 1. To shut people up so you can get on with your life, and 2. to provide a significant but not huge increase in your chances of avoiding severe symptoms such as death. With Omicron’s dramatically decreased severity, reason 2 is getting weaker by the second. Unless you’re a cast member on My 600-Pound Life, Omicron is not likely to do you in.

A 40% efficacy rate for a flu shot is not terrible, because the flu is only rarely a serious disease, it almost never amounts to a national or global crisis, and we get a new flu (or flus) every year, so if one year’s vaccines aren’t great, there is always next year. An ineffective coronavirus vaccine armory is much worse. Coronavirus isn’t going away at the end of every year, and unlike the flu, coronavirus has disrupted civilization.

Unless the virus decides to keep getting less dangerous until the end of the world, the only answer to our problem is a really good vaccine or cure. We will continue to be exposed to covid forever, so as long as new Delta-like variants remain possible, we need something that reliably prevents severe symptoms.

All the vaccines stink. Drink that in. They stink. It’s probably a good idea to take a non-mRNA shot if you’re fat, sick, or old, but don’t expect the moon. If you squeak by with a really bad week of fever, aches, and other problems, you are doing as well as you can reasonably hope to.

If you take an mRNA shot, you have to worry about the DNA damage credible researchers say mRNA shots do, so you could be replacing a minor problem with a major one. I might conceivably take a Johnson & Johnson, Astrazeneca, or Novavax booster, but I have no interest in something that prevents my cells from repairing mutations.

The medical establishment is amazing. They try to ram antioxidants down our throats because they prevent mutations. They tell us to stay out of the sun because UV rays cause mutations. They tell us smoking causes mutations. Then researchers say mRNA shots prevent cells from repairing mutations…and everyone is quiet. If the risk isn’t real, shouldn’t they at least have told us that? They haven’t.

But we should trust them, because science. Right? Wrong. The medical establishment is politicized. Along with the press and the government, it hides things from us. It’s no wonder there are so many insane conspiracy theories about coronavirus. How many times do officially-endorsed lies and omissions have to be revealed before people start turning to alternative sources?

In Europe and other parts of the world, anti-vaccination riots have been going on for months, and not even Fox News covers them. The people at Fox pretend to be MSM outsiders, but it’s a very thin facade. Fox made its employees submit to vaccinations and tests. If riots can take place in high-profile places in Europe and we have to go to Youtube to find out about it, it proves we can’t trust the establishment. Like we needed more evidence.

Since beginning to write this piece, I have learned that Fox has just “discovered” the foreign riots. Congratulations, Fox, and welcome to last year.

We have no way of knowing whether the mRNA shots are safe, because no one in a position of power will even confront the question.

How many times have establishment claims about these shots been proven badly wrong? Many. In view of that, how can we trust the establishment now?

The establishment is run by people who don’t believe in God and have a phobia of death and a love of authoritarianism and elitism. They are genuinely scared of covid. They can’t be trusted to tell us the truth. They couldn’t make themselves do it if they wanted to. Fear leads to rationalization. It causes people to convince themselves the truth is wrong.

The establishment makes up narratives and feeds them to us, we occasionally see through them, we look for other sources, and then we start believing nutcases who say they’re injecting us with cameras or sterilizing us or God knows what else.

Solomon said, “A good name is better than precious ointment,” and the establishment’s name is no longer good at all. It’s not even good enough for government work. Credibility is something that should only be sacrificed with great reluctance, because sooner or later, you will want to use it in a very critical situation. The establishment didn’t take this into consideration.

Our anti-coronavirus measures are not working, and, as everyone with common sense predicted, fatigue has set in. People are saying, “A few deaths are okay as long as I don’t have to wear a filthy mask and recycle my own stale breath for 10 hours a day.” They want to send their kids back to school. They want to socialize, which is essential to mental health. They are remembering something they had forgotten before the pandemic started: liberty is worth the sacrifice of a certain number of lives.

You can’t make relatively free people hide in their houses and wear ineffective masks forever. They got us to comply by assuring us it was all temporary, but since they started saying that, children have been born and learned to walk and talk. Increasingly, people are not buying it.

A normal social life is not a luxury; it’s a necessity. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an ignoramus. Isolation ruins our mental and physical health. It’s remarkable that we hear so little about this. The leftists who control education and government whine about things like how much room pigs and zoo animals have to move around, but they think human beings can hole up in their homes with no ill effects.

How could anyone have been stupid enough to think zero covid was possible? How do people like that get degrees in medicine and positions in government? We should have isolated fat, sick, and old people who were willing to be isolated, and we should have been much less demanding regarding the vast majority of us.

Now people are so tired of the nonsense, even if a good approach pops up, many of us won’t want to hear about it.

The most remarkable thing about our situation after two years of coronavirus is that there has been no revival. It used to be that people were smart enough to know epidemics were caused by sin and backsliding. Not any more. America has gotten much more vociferous and fanatical in its promotion of sexual perversion, idolatry, pride, and other things that bring calamity on us. God has no reason to relent and help us out.

Because we have dug in our heels, I think Omicron will be a pause, not a finale. Either a worse variant will follow it, or some other apocalyptic evil will hit us. I hope the break will last long enough for my wife and I to get together permanently. I would be shocked if the world’s descent into chaos actually stopped.

By the way, I had an interesting revelation the other day. For some time, I’ve believed coronavirus was partly a punishment for perversion. I saw the parallel between the modern world and Sodom. Now I feel I know more about that.

Homosexuals love to claim Sodom was not punished for perversion. They cite a Biblical passage that says Sodom’s sin was selfishness. Of course, the Bible does say Sodom was punished for perversion, but why would it also mention selfishness?

England used to be America. England was the world’s big superpower, and they spread the gospel. As England’s power and wealth increased, men became drunk with ambition and greed. They were taken away from their families by their ambitions. They forgot God, too.

When men aren’t around to raise their sons properly, sexual perversion flourishes. This is why homosexual antics are such big problems at boarding schools. British men were selfish and greedy, and now British males are effeminate. It’s pretty easy to tell a typical gay American from a straight one, but most educated Englishmen seem gay regardless of their orientation.

Think about it. Pick a British or near-British celebrity at random. Piers Morgan: effeminate. Hugh Grant: effeminate. Jeremy Clarkson: effeminate. James May, Richard Hammond, Peter O’Toole, Oliver Reed, Hugh Laurie, Rex Harrison, James Mason, Colin Firth, Christopher Lee, Claude Rains, Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton…you could make a list a yard long. The exceptions are often men who came from the lower classes, where success was presumably less of a problem.

It looks like focusing on money and power neutralizes the effectiveness of fathers, and that’s how perversion creeps in. It makes sense, because homosexuality and other perversions are commonly associated with prosperity. It’s remarkable how many high-profile people have homosexual or otherwise unusual children. Will Smith, who may hold the world record for selfishness and ambition, has two. Stephanie Seymour produced two. Dick Cheney has one. Jackie Chan, Cher, Jamie Lee Curtis, Magic Johnson, Dwyane Wade, Sally Field, Annette Bening, Barba Streisand (no surprise), Marie Osmond, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, R. Kelly…again, the list is long.

The British abandoned God for Mammon, they became effeminate, and then they lost the wealth and power for which they had traded God. It’s very interesting. It explains what’s happening to America. Men pattern themselves after their fathers, and when Dad isn’t around, Mom becomes the father.

I still see America continuing to sink. Christians are obsessed with money and “living their best lives,” so they are not helpful to people who are looking for answers. They don’t heal people. They don’t work miracles. They don’t prophesy. We complain a lot about how nonbelievers are ruining the world, but as a friend of mine says, fish rots from the head. We were supposed to lead and show our love, but we’re not doing it, and we are reaping the harvest.

I hope we get a real remedy for coronavirus, but it won’t fix the rot that brought us here.

My Greens are Greener Than Your Greens

It’s amazing how stupid people are. Unfortunately, I am a person, so my generalization applies to me.

When I was a kid, there was no such thing as a plastic trash bag. People put their trash in paper grocery bags that leaked and tore. Garbage was disgusting. You would simply throw your bags into your rusty galvanized can, and it would rot and ooze until pickup day. The cans stank even when they were empty. Indoor cans also stank and had to be washed out. It’s not like that today. I have indoor cans that have never been washed, thanks to plastic bags. They still look and smell new, apart from the holes my pets have chewed in them.

Digression: I use the words “trash” and “garbage” interchangeably, because the dictionary gives pretty much identical definitions for them. A lot of people think “trash” means dry stuff like paper, but Mr. Webster disagrees.

It’s sort of remarkable that the human race didn’t start using plastic as its default material for trash bags until I was out of diapers. In patent law, one of the requirements for a new patent is that the invention must be “nonobvious,” and that means it’s not obvious to “one skilled in the art.” The use of plastic for trash bags should have been obvious to everyone, not just bag manufacturers. Plastic bags already existed. For some reason, the little wires in people’s heads didn’t touch, and we were deprived of a great boon for a disgracefully long time.

The Internet says plastic bags were first used for institutional trash in 1950, and Glad introduced plastic trash bags to the public in 1966. They took a surprisingly long time to catch on. Paper bags were commonly used during the first few years of the next decade.

We didn’t have trash bags, but we did have Baggies. These were thin polyethylene bags for food storage. People put them in lunchboxes and so on. They came with little wire ties because the bags didn’t have zipper closures on them. Baggies, or a similar product, were introduced in 1957, so why did consumer trash bags take so long?

When zipper bags came out, the writing was on the wall for Baggies. When I go to the store, I can’t find Baggies. I guess they were discontinued long ago.

I have bought zipper bags for decades. I don’t like them. They’re small and expensive, and the zippers often fail. The zippers are stiff, so the zipper end of a bag always has to be relatively straight. You can’t gather it up.

Really cheap people wash them and reuse them, but who wants to do that? It comes across like a mental disorder, and the bags take forever to dry. Said the guy who actually tried it.

I used to walk around in grocery stores, lamenting the absence of Baggies, pushing a cart containing produce I had stuffed in bags that were almost exactly like Baggies. Again, the little wires failed to make contact.

I started eating salads for breakfast recently, and that means I had to deal with lettuce. I ended up with a storage problem.

It all began with concerns about washing lettuce. I wondered if it was really necessary. I doubted restaurants did it. Washing lettuce is time-consuming, and in the end, you get wet lettuce which is hard to dry.

I checked the web to learn whether washing lettuce was actually important, and I read some disgusting stuff. Evidently, it really is important. Things like sand, bugs, worms, frogs, and fecal bacteria are found on vegetables, even if the packaging says, “Pre-washed.”

As if it were necessary, I am reminded why I have no respect for vegetarians. They love telling us they’re “eating clean” and that meat makes us sick. They also have a big bias against cooked food. Guess what? Frog poop isn’t clean, but a nice steak is. Bacteria can’t do much to the inside of a steak, because it takes them weeks to get there. Microbes can’t do much to people who eat cooked food, because cooking kills germs. Their precious salads kill lots of people every year! Have you ever noticed that nearly all germ-related food recalls involve vegetables?

Okay, that’s not totally true. Ground beef gets a few recalls. But it’s worth the risk, because it’s meat!

You can use a device called a salad spinner. It’s basically a spinning colander in a bowl. You spin your greens and hope the water goes out through the holes. I started looking for a salad spinner. I could not find one that didn’t get awful reviews. They break. They warp in the dishwasher. They’re useless.

OXO used to make a good one, but of course, they quit and replaced it with one that falls apart.

Until I figure out what to do about a salad spinner, I will be rinsing lettuce in the sink and standing the leaves up in a colander to dry. Then I have to store the ones I don’t eat right away. That involves bags.

I can use gallon zip bags at a minimum of about 13 cents each. Okay, I admit it. This adds up to maybe $12 per year, so I can probaby swing it, but it still annoyed me. The bags are not as versatile as a produce bag, they hold a lot less, and I can get produce bags for three cents each.

Needless to say, I just ordered 700 produce bags off Ebay.

“Wow, an eccentric saved himself $7 per year. Why should I care?” I’ll tell you why.

I have a big roll of Costco plastic wrap. It’s useful for covering bowls, but that’s about it. When you wrap things like cheese and bread, it’s a pain to use. It clings to itself and wads up, and you can never open it up so you can use its full length and width. It’s narrow, so it can be hard to get it to cover a dish or bowl well without using several wraps.

It gets on my nerves.

A big ol’ produce bag will hold a fairly large dish or bowl. You can just shove it in there. The bag won’t stick to itself, either.

“The bag won’t close!” Sure it will. If whatever you put in it is under a certain size, you can tie an overhand knot in the open end of the bag. If it’s bigger, you can rest the bag on top of the open end, closing it.

It’s genius.

Obvious genius.

I can also use a produce bag to line the bottom of Marv’s pooping basket. I have a big basket for him, and he sits on the handle when he has to poop. When I’m lucky. I used to put newspapers in the bottom, but I quit subscribing. A three-cent bag will do the job fine.

I already use big cheap bags to line his cage. They’re fantastic. So much cleaner and easier to handle than paper. Every day, he gets a new bag. His poop tray stays clean.

I bought the cheap bags for him, but now I use them for trash.

I found that trash bags ran around a quarter apiece, which is ridiculous. We buy very tough bags when we don’t really need them. If you’re a lazy sack of manure, and you only take your trash out once a week, okay, maybe you need a strong bag. You’ll want something tough so you can crush the trash every day with your shoe to make room, and while the trash is sitting in your kitchen, it will rot and feed roaches, ants, and mice. If you’re a clean person, you’ll remove all the edible garbage from the inside of your house every night, and you’ll get rid of it before it causes problems. You only need your bags to hold a reasonable amount of trash, and they don’t have to hold it very long.

I buy 30-gallon bags for 10 cents each. They’re wonderful. A truck just pulled up and dropped 1500 of them on my porch.

I was an idiot to buy Hefty bags. They’re for suckers. There’s a reason why you never see them at malls, stadiums, and so on. Their crews use cheap bags like mine.

I can still use zip bags and plastic wrap for certain purposes, but basically, I have switched over.

If I still lived in Coral Gables, where the nutbars have banned economical, environmentally sound plastic grocery bags, I would buy a stack of those bags and take them to the store with me. I would drop them in front of the cashier and say, “You encourage people to bring their own bags. Eat your words, baby.”

There is a ban on providing plastic bags for customers. There is no ban on customer-owned plastic.

I may get a couple of rolls of mid-size produce bags, between my trash bags and the produce bags I just ordered.

Of course, I feel bad about filling landfills with so much plastic. It probably adds up to half a pound per month. Clearly a crisis. I’m sure it would be a lot better to use several pounds of paper bags which never degrade once they’re covered with fresh trash. Your greenie virtue-signaling bags will still be intact when your great-great-grandchildren are in assisted living. Then there’s the environmental damage associated with the paper industry.

Don’t think about it. Listen to great geniuses like Jessica Alba and Whoopi Goldberg. How can they be wrong if they’re famous?

Movies This Bad Should Come With Warning Labels

I just want to warn the other inhabitants of Earth: do NOT believe the good reviews critics gave for Amazon’s The Lost City of Z.

I felt like watching a mindless adventure/action movie with a pizza, so I went through a bunch of reviews, trying to find something suitable. Something on a par with Pacific Rim or the Spider-Man movies. I tried to find lists of action movies at Rotten Tomatoes, based on audience score. Their audience ratings are the only reliable ratings I’ve ever seen.

Naturally, they refuse to provide such lists. Instead you get Tomatometer scores. The Tomatometer is based on reviews from critics who are, hello, on the take and notoriously wokationified. Even in 2021, critics want to tell you what to watch, and studios tell critics what to recommend.

I found a review for The Lost City of Z, and it looked good. Something about a British explorer on a quest to find a lost advanced civilization in the Amazon basin. I figured it would be sort of like Lost Horizon. A starving explorer would be dragged through an invisible portal into a magnificent city and so on. Sort of like Wokanda, except hopefully less ridiculous.

The movie is nothing like that. It’s based on the story of a real British army officer. It’s unbelievably boring. It’s over two hours long even though it contains enough legitimate material for a 4-minute Youtube video.

The explorer is played by Charlie Hunnam. Until a minute ago (Wikipedia), I had no idea he was British, because he does a really bad British accent. I realize this makes no sense, but he sounded like an American actor who used an incompetent accent coach. Some actors just can’t relax and sound natural. I guess he’s one of them.

Obviously, spoilers are coming, not that you should care. Hunnam is sent into the forest, way up into Bolivia, in order to draw a map and somehow prevent a war between Bolivia and Brazil. During the trip, he finds some pottery fragments and ugly, crude sculptures. A native tells him there used to be a big city with golden stuff, and the junk he finds convinces him it’s true.

He is ridiculed in England, because the very idea that Indians could make pottery and be as smart as white people is just too outrageous and liberal. When I saw this part, I realized why critics pretended to like the movie and gave it affirmative action. It was about brilliant Indians who run around naked and fat, bigoted white people who eat meat and have big carbon footprints.

Why does wokeness have to ruin everything? Can’t we have honest movie reviews? Did crooked reviews for this appalling movie help Indians in Bolivia? Is anyone stupid enough to believe that? Was I supposed to come away from over two hours of torture hating caucasians?

There have actually been entertaining movies that blamed white people for the world’s problems. If you’re going to revise history, it’s not a good excuse for being bad at your job. You can’t say you needed to make a lame movie in order to advance leftism. Even lies can be told skillfully and in an engaging manner.

Have you heard of an amazing ancient Bolivian civilization? No. This means you know how the movie ends. Whatever the big discovery is, it’s not Mexico City all over again. Wikipedia says the actual explorer, Percy Fawcett, failed utterly. I am not willing to watch the rest of the movie to find out how Amazon handled that.

Fawcett’s son went back to South America with him, and they both died. Who wants to see that?

Their big discoveries indicating advancement among Indian tribes were a field of crops planted in rows, and the ability to catch fish by poisoning them. I can totally understand why a person might wonder if they had a space program. The fact that they didn’t have metals, the wheel, or clothing might be considered contrarian evidence, as would their habits of killing people for no reason and eating dead bodies.

Some societies just don’t get much done. Let’s accept it and move on.

There is also a pointless scene in which the explorer’s wife has a loud fight with him because she wants to go. Women can do everything men can do! Remind me of that the next time a man with his testicles sliced off breaks a women’s sports record. It should be this coming month, and again, perhaps several times, the month after that.

Girls are just as good as boys. What a revolutionary message. I remember how exciting it was when I saw it expressed for the first time. I believe it was in 1967, on The Andy Griffith Show,when Andy’s girlfriend beat him at bowling. Still so fresh and relevant in new movies, over 50 years later. I can’t get enough of it. Until I saw this movie, I honestly thought women would get too uppity if we let them wear shoes.

The criminal who wrote this movie clearly thought the woke lady scene was important, even though it brings the movie to a halt and has no relevance to anything that happens later. Wonder Woman stays home when her husband goes back to Bolivia to become the main dish at a barbecue.

This movie really stinks. Do not watch it under any circumstances. I cannot stress this enough: it is not good.

Someone could get rich buying the Rotten Tomatoes audience ratings and using them to provide online guides to movies people actually liked. Meanwhile, critics and other social engineers will keep telling us what they think we SHOULD like.

In closing, CHINESE VIRUS CHINESE VIRUS CHINESE VIRUS CHINESE VIRUS CHINESE VIRUS CHINESE VIRUS CHINESE VIRUS.

Thank you for your time.

Therapy Puppies Will not be Provided

Before I begin today’s blog post, I would like to say some things:

CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU CHINESE VIRUS KUNG FLU SHANGHAI SHIVERS WUHAN FLU

Also:

MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA. MRNA SHOTS DAMAGE DNA.

Furthermore:

TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE MEN.

To quote Fearless Leader, end of message. On to the post.

Well, shame on me. I was overconfident when I said coronavirus had already peaked in Florida. I was also wrong to say New York State had about 86,000 new daily cases without noting that the health people had done what they always do: they skipped reporting one day and then combined two days’ results for the next day, giving an inflated figure. Finally, I believe I was mistaken to say Omicron had peaked in Zambia. They are still getting around 10% of Florida’s numbers, and while it does look like Florida has peaked, it’s not completely clear.

What was I right about? I was right to say New York State was doing much worse than Florida. It still is. I was also right to say the press was ignoring New York while pretending Florida was a crisis zone. So my premises were completely correct, but I got ahead of myself regarding Florida, and I think what I said about Zambia was factually wrong. I still expect Zambia to turn around fast.

I was right about Omicron going away in South Africa, and I still expect Omicron to go away soon here. South Africa’s spike lasted almost exactly one month. Florida is about two weeks into Omicron. The daily histogram, viewed over a two-week period, appears to show a peak that occurred about two days ago, causing today’s 7-day average to jump. That average can go up the day after a spike peaks. If we get lower figures today and tomorrow, it will suggest the peak hit yesterday and the day before. I think the figure on January 15 will be very close to the low figure we saw on December 15.

New York State’s spike didn’t start with Omicron. It was already moving into a new Delta wave that appears to have missed Florida. The 30-day histogram suggests Omicron piled on top of Delta as of about December 15, so if that’s true, Omicron should go away in the middle of January, but because Delta is still a big deal in New York State, New York may still be in trouble then.

Delta has longer spikes, so I think New York’s figures will remain higher than Florida’s for several weeks.

Let’s see who knows more. Me, a layman who makes wild guesses, or the doctors and scientists who have gotten so many things wrong already.

I was just asking myself this: are they really as stupid as they seem? Can it be that mediocrity is that big a problem among medical people?

This occurred to me: maybe the problem isn’t that they’re stupid. All sorts of brilliant people go into medicine. Maybe the ones that aren’t useless (under 10% in any profession) are trying their best to tell us the truth, but the others are choking them for political reasons and monetary gain. Maybe doctors all over the country are huddling in fear, knowing the truth yet afraid to say it because they’ll lose hospital privileges and referrals.

I know someone who works for a state university. This person can’t say things like, “I don’t think masks work very well” at work. To do so would be to invite termination. My acquaintance isn’t even in the medical field, so it must be worse at that university’s hospitals and laboratories.

Youtube is taking extraordinary measures to keep the truth hidden. Even though I have long predicted this kind of thing, even I was surprised when I saw how bad it had gotten.

Day before yesterday, a ministry I like posted a video saying Christians only had a year to get it together. The ministry’s leader said countries were in the process of passing vaccine laws that would make travel and emigration impossible for people who refused to take shots. I didn’t understand why this was so upsetting to him. No one should be forced to take untested medicines, but the truth appears to be that the viral vector shots are very safe. The mRNA shots have been shown to damage DNA and affect the body’s ability to repair it, but if you can take a viral vector shot and only face a fleeing blood clot risk that only affects 5 or 6 people per million, you shouldn’t be that scared of vaccines. Unless you know something the rest of us don’t.

I wanted to know what he knew, so I posted a comment, including the stuff about the vaccines. The comment vanished. Later, I posted it again. It vanished in a few minutes.

I thought the minister had gone off the rails. I thought he was murdering dissent. Preachers often get that way.

Eventually, I wondered if Youtube was the criminal. I posted a third comment, and the minister said he hadn’t seen the other two.

I finally reposted my comment, using spellings like “DEE ENN AY,” “NJEKSHUN,” and “BLUD KLOTZ.” It stayed up.

Youtube is automatically deleting information which is not only true and important but previously published by MSM sources. What I wrote was factually true, it wasn’t obscene, it wasn’t hateful, it didn’t criticize perverts, and it didn’t encourage violence or the wearing of red hats. It still got erased, and Youtube gave me no notice or warning.

If Youtube is doing this to me, who knows what hospitals, the AMA, universities, and the press are doing to doctors and scientists who want us to hear the truth? A lot of them are getting their messages through, but are those messages neutered to get past the truth-killers? Also, are the communications that get through shadowbanned or otherwise throttled, in order to reduce their reach while giving the false appearance of fairness?

We will probably never know. The truth-killers control the news and write history.

In order to get my comment to work, I went to a different video I had no interest in and kept posting and editing the comment until it survived. I also put up a comment using an anti-homosexual slur to see what would happen. That time, a window popped up, asking me if my comment violated community standards. Whose community? Never mind that question. Anyway, at least Youtube crawled out from under its rock and revealed what it was doing. I deleted the comment after it served its diagnostic purpose.

Try criticizing homosexuality or BLM in a Youtube comment, and see what happens. You won’t like it.

I love this blog, because the daily reads are in 4 figures, and I can say what I like. HONG KONG FLUEY. HONG KONG FLUEY. No one can stop me or keep readers away. Not yet. Eventually, that will change.

It’s really annoying when people say phrases like “Chinese virus,” “CCP flu,” and “Shanghai shivers” are racist. They’re obviously not. Identifying a disease with its geographical origin is not racist, nor is identifying the political party which lied about it and turned it loose on the world without warning us.

The Taiwanese, who are Chinese if not Chinese nationals, say “Wuhan pneumonia.” It is beyond dispute that the virus came from China, and saying so in a lighthearted way, or attaching the initialism “CCP” to it in order to properly allocate blame for the CCP’s near-genocidal coverup, is morally right.

Here’s something leftists don’t get: you don’t actually get to decide what is racist or what other people can say. No one put you in charge of other people. Midget, Indian, illegal alien, looting, riot, whore, pro-life, snowflake, pervert, Eskimo.

Lefto-nuts claim coronavirus slang terms cause idiots to beat up Asians. That’s ridiculous. If people are beating up Asians over the Chinese virus, it’s partly because they’ve seen 5 million news stories saying it came from China, but mostly because they’re idiots.

A lot of people were beating up Asians before coronavirus. They still beat them up for reasons unrelated to the pandemic. Many American blacks are extremely racist, and they commit most anti-Asian attacks. If they mention coronavirus while attacking, it probably doesn’t mean much. Violent, racist criminals will cite whatever excuse they have on hand.

By the way, don’t be deceived. “Attack” doesn’t mean speech. Saying “Chinese virus” is neither a hate crime nor an attack. Leftists claim white people are behind most anti-Asian attacks, and that isn’t even nearly true. They broaden the label “attack” to include nearly everything. A real attack involves physical violence.

In San Francisco, which has a huge Chinatown (Racist term?), a 2008 study determined that 85% of all reported violent attacks (on anyone) were black-on-Asian. That’s not white supremacy or Asian racism at work. Asians were systematically targeted by black people. Nothing could be more racist. At the time, the term “Chinese virus” had not been coined.

Anti-Asian crime is generally rooted in envy. Asians have a long history of moving into blighted minority neighborhoods, opening businesses, and becoming successful where the inhabitants and their ancestors have consistently failed. Many people in these neighborhoods think this is somehow unfair, probably because leftists have been teaching them inequality of outcome proves they are victims of racism, not their own bad behavior. Attacks flow from the victimhood mentality.

Black racists also attack a lot of Arabs and Indians in similar positions, and they are hell on Orthodox Jews. “Shanghai shivers” isn’t the problem. There is zero evidence that slang terms for coronavirus motivate attacks. No criminal has ever said, “I loved Chinese people until I heard somebody say ‘Wuhan flu,’ and then something inside me snapped.”

I’ve been white all my life, and I would know if white people hated Asians. I have only known one white person who seemed to dislike Asians. An uncle of mine doesn’t seem to like Koreans. He thinks they’re mean. I think he may have encountered some angry Korean students in his profession. White Americans generally admire Asians, and my impression is that they like them somewhat better than whites.

Far-Eastern Asians are a little smarter than we are. In America, they commit less crime (not including tax evasion), and they make good money and pay taxes instead of living off them. No one is afraid to walk in an Asian neighborhood at night, except, ironically, Asians. They are afraid of other groups, for good reason. They are probably better Americans, on the whole, than caucasians. What’s not to like?

The CCP is different. It’s important to hold the CCP accountable for the pandemic. It’s not happening, but it should be. Reminding the world the CCP let the virus escape without warning the rest of us could help us prepare for other world-changing CCP crimes which are underway or in the pipeline.

Chinese virus, Chinese virus, Chinese virus. Read it here while you still can.

Unless Xi’s moronic crackdown on capitalism, and by extension, success cripples the whole country, China will continue to ascend. America’s dominance seems certain to vanish soon. God isn’t going to continue favoring a country that abandons him and tries to compel better nations to promote homosexuality, which God absolutely hates.

I think the CCP will go after Taiwan soon. Why should they be afraid? They beat us in Korea and Vietnam, after all. No one likes to say that, but it’s true. We won’t lose because our military is weak. We will lose because we give up.

We will only put up token resistance before accepting humiliation and making up excuses. See if I’m wrong. They’ll probably get the South China Sea, too. Chinese businessmen will continue to lie to us, poison us, and steal our intellectual property with Xi’s help, and we’ll keep buying and buying and buying because America is cursed with submission.

Beijing will probably become the new Rome or London, with a global empire that goes unchallenged for decades or until the beast rises. Who knows? Maybe he’ll be Chinese.

It’s wrong to hate Chinese people for being Chinese, but it’s very good to hate the CCP, and it’s also good to criticize mainland Chinese morals, because they cause a lot of suffering. For example, in mainland China right now, people are cutting dogs up alive and throwing them in boiling water. Look it up. Don’t believe me until you look it up. Also, mainland Chinese are extremely dishonest in business.

The First Amendment has lost a tremendous portion of its power, thanks to the tech kids and people who vote for socialists who give them other people’s property. On top of that, demonic delusion is everywhere, so even when the truth is known, people prefer bizarre theories with no foundation in reality. It’s no coincidence that Q Anon and the flat Earth crazies arose just as the apocalypse began.

One of the great benefits of praying in tongues is that if you do it a lot, the Holy Spirit will lead you out of delusion. As the word says:

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

If you listen to the Holy Spirit, you may draw some bad conclusions, but you will soon recover and know the truth. You’re not going to get the truth from the press, preachers, or the people around you, so you might as well start listening to the source.

When Leftists do the Math

I can’t resist posting this.

Florida has been catching hell ever since covid arrived in the US. Our wonderful governor refused to panic and turn us into prisoners. We ended up with a high infection number. It’s about like New York State’s. New York’s governor, the notorious ejectee Andrew Cuomo, who had a habit of fondling women without consent, put many thousands of infected people in old folks’ homes, causing a tremendous number of unnecessary deaths.

Florida’s population is bigger than New York’s, partly because New Yorkers move here to die. It’s not like Florida is a tiny state with a gigantic covid toll.

Cuomo got in trouble for molesting women, which is a very bad thing, but the leftist press didn’t care when his pandemic mistake caused the deaths of thousands of people who would otherwise have survived. That mistake was many orders of magnitude worse. Florida’s Governor DeSantis, on the other hand, has been continually slandered, excoriated, and belittled for a coronavirus outcome which is pretty similar to Cuomo’s and which did a much better job of preserving our liberty.

Now we have the Omicron variant, and it’s hitting New York State hard. You would think journalists would shut up about DeSantis, right? You’d expect them to say something about New York and other states which have very serious coronavirus problems.

No, you wouldn’t. They are paid liars now. Objectivity no longer exists. They are still hammering DeSantis, and to look at the news, you would barely know Cuomo existed.

Problem: Omicron is way worse in New York. It has already peaked in Florida. You can look at the graph for yourself. It will probably keep declining. The latest daily number is around 30,000, and the 7-day average is about 16,500. New York State’s latest daily number is about 87,000 (not a typo), and their average is about 36,000. New York State hasn’t peaked yet, either. It will probably get worse for at least a couple more days.

New-York-based journalists had a bigger problem with a one-man handemic than the pandemic.

I can’t be sure, because I only took around 8 semesters of calculus, but I believe 36,000 is bigger than 16,500. I’m not saying I’m smart enough to read news off a teleprompter or get a liberal arts degree, ride on my dad’s coattails, and run for governor, but I feel confident my conclusion is correct.

It literally makes no difference what DeSantis says or does or what happens in Florida. It could be raining money here, and leftists would still be crucifying him over useless mask rules and claiming falsely that he’s against vaccines. What purpose is there in looking at the news? Just imagine what leftists wish it were, and whatever you conjure up will be close what’s actually being published.

I always like to talk about Africa and Zambia when I write about coronavirus. Zambia’s omicron wave is drying up as quickly as it came, and it never compared to what happened in any large American state. South Africa, which used to be considered Omicron’s epicenter, is nearing the end of its wave almost as quickly as it got to the peak.

Omicron is infecting people on an unprecedented scale, and it’s still not producing many deaths. It’s milder than the other variants. It’s probably a huge blessing. It may “vaccinate” us against future strains. Saying this to leftists is like saying “ni” to fictional knights who crave shrubberies. It infuriates them.

Leftists are never happy. They think happiness is collusion in a nonexistent global white supremacist sexist conspiracy. They were utterly miserable all through 2020, they were only slightly less depressed and enraged this year, and now that coronavirus seems to be going away, they can’t stand that, either. If coronavirus goes away, they lose one of their big talking points, which is that everyone still needs to lock down and wear a face diaper.

I think the pandemic is ending. I think it will eventually start up again due to a new mutation, or we’ll get something even worse, but I believe omicron will put a giant dent in the rationales for masks, lockdowns, and shots.

As the numbers decline and the public gets more angry about continued infringements of its essential freedoms, leftists will start appearing on TV, trying to minimize the recovery and looking for ways to continue oppressive pandemic measures. They’ll keep pushing governments to pay people to stay home, because people who get government checks vote for socialism and the persecution of individuals who refuse to pretend homosexuality and gender confusion are normal and healthy.

If covid bounces back with a stronger variant, leftists will experience a rare sensation: joy. They’ll say they were proven right, just like they say a hot week in St. Louis proves the oceans are going to rise and swallow us.

In their hearts, leftists are conflicted. They hate life even more than usual during the pandemic, but they also love the power it has given them. It let them turn people into welfare-addicted loafers. It let them tell people what to do and where they could go. It gave them an opportunity to protest vaccinations and say vaccines were deadly, until Trump, the man who pushed vaccines into existence, left office. Then it gave them an opportunity to oppress the evil, stupid Trumpers who criticized vaccines, which were clearly safe and necessary.

Leftists have been more unhappy than anyone during the pandemic, and that unhappiness, I think, has made them happier than at any time in recent history.

I had a great 2020. I did what I pleased and rarely had to wear a mask. I had a great 2021; I got married and traveled with my beautiful wife. I have been happy, so I guess things haven’t been going very well for me by leftist standards.

I think the last time I wore a mask was in October. I had to fly. I see a few people in my local stores wearing them, but they’re outliers. Probably snowbirds.

I believe 2022 will be a great year for me, too. My only big problems are coronavirus and immigration. Coronavirus appears to be self-limiting through mutation, and the State Department will eventually let my wife in. It would feel weird to get a break from coronavirus. Even a few months of restored communal sanity would seem strange.

Every day without a mask or a gene-damaging mRNA shot is a victory. I don’t know how people in blue states can stand their lives. What must it be like to wear a sweaty, smelly, glasses-fogging mask 8 or 10 hours per day? What is it like to roll up your sleeve and take an untested shot you don’t want, because you’ll get fired if you don’t? I can’t relate, any more than I can relate to having to walk the streets of Baltimore or DC without being allowed to carry a pistol or a knife, or having to cower in San Francisco as organized gangs of violent morons loot stores I depend on.

They say global warming will make the oceans rise until huge areas of low-lying land disappear and everyone has to move to points of high ground. That has already happened to Christians and conservatives. The rights of human beings have disappeared below the water, and God has moved people like me to little oases that protrude from beneath the waves. I can go to the store with a loaded gun in my pocket and a sheath knife displayed openly. If I wanted to, I could celebrate my Southern heritage with a Confederate flag windshield sticker. I can use any pronouns I like. I hunt in my yard. When I feel like it, I take a high-powered rifle out back and shoot 5/8″ 5-shot groups at 100 yards, and my neighbors couldn’t care less.

I don’t have to recycle. I could put old car batteries in the dumpsters at the local collection center if I felt like it, and no one would care. I can give off all the carbon I want. I get a free permit every time I burn a couple of tons of dead trees in my yard, but if I didn’t, nothing would happen.

No one has taken over a local neighborhood and put angry lesbians with rifles in charge of security. No businesses have been burned. No gangs have surrounded me at restaurants and tried to force me to give black power salutes.

If I got in my car, I could drive into the swollen sea and visit the poor people who live on the bottom. I could go to Atlanta or Miami and get a taste of how the cursed are spending the apocalypse. I don’t plan to go to cities any more than I have to. If I didn’t have to travel to see my wife, I would have no desire to enter any major city ever again. Like Robert Redford said in Jeremiah Johnson, I’ve been to a town.

If God gives you favor during these accursed times, you live in an upper-class universe. You have Christian privilege. He separates you from the angry, depressed, carnal hordes and puts you down in a place of safety. People who reject God are living under self-imposed supernatural apartheid.

Anyway, here’s to Omicron. Hope it lives up to its potential.

In Heaven as it Was on Earth

I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

I am physically separated from my wife, but we spent a long time together using video chat. I have great friends, so we had presents to open and people to message and chat with. Even though we were both technically alone, we had a holiday of love and warmth, and we were encouraged by the knowledge that we would probably get together for good soon.

On Christmas Day, I had a wonderful revelation about Christmas.

I realize December 25 probably isn’t the date of Jesus’ birth, and I have heard all the overthought arguments against celebrating Christmas. Some of them aren’t true. For example, it isn’t true that we got Christmas from the pagan holiday Saturnalia. I don’t think Christmas trees honor the devil. There are plenty of real problems with our modern traditions without making up new ones.

Christmas is imperfect, but it’s still very important. We need to acknowledge Jesus as a nation and as families. The fact that most people think Christmas is about elves and going into debt doesn’t mean you and I can’t do it right.

When I was a kid, my life was miserable. My dad was a wife-beater who drank too much. My mother was a defeated pessimist who failed to introduce her kids to God. My sister was a jealous, sadistic sociopath who resented my existence. Our house was a depressing place of fear and dreary expectations. Nonetheless, I loved Christmas, because we used to visit my mother’s parents in Kentucky. They were wealthy, they had a big house, they always decorated, I got to see my aunts, uncles, and cousins, and I was their favorite grandchild. Kentucky was a place of escape for me. The impression it made in my heart was overly idealistic. It wasn’t hard for Kentucky to look like heaven after what I went through in Florida.

We always had lots of presents and two big dinners. We got to play with great toys. Sometimes there was snow, so we could ride a sled.

It was very comforting to feel I belonged to a loving family. Every branch of the family was somewhat dysfunctional, but at Christmastime, we all came together to form a much more pleasant-looking whole.

On Christmas Day, I started thinking about the passage where the Bible says that through the Holy Spirit, we cry out, “Abba, Father!”, to God. “Abba” is a Hebrew word, and it’s an affectionate term meaning “father.”

Sometimes preachers talk about it, saying it means “daddy.” Personally, I never called my dad that. It always seemed childish to me. It was okay for girls, but “mommy” and “daddy” sounded awful coming from boys. I called my parents “Mom” and “Dad.”

I could never call God “Daddy,” because it would be insincere and make me feel uncomfortable, but I can call him “Dad.” There is no one else here to answer to that now.

I decided to make a special effort to use “Dad” in my prayers. The Bible says Spirit-led Christians are literally the children of God, so we shouldn’t be reluctant to call him what he is.

I had tried this in the past with limited results, but doing it on Christmas day, I felt a real connection. I got a stronger revelation of who I am; what my identity is and what my rights and privileges are. It gave me a sensation of belonging.

It made me think of those Christmases in Kentucky. We gathered at the home of a wealthy, powerful male figure, and we enjoyed his generosity and the warm oasis he provided for us. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I felt that special connection only family members feel. If you’ve ever felt you could show up at your grandparents’ house or an uncle’s house uninvited and unannounced, use your own key to get in, raid the fridge, make long-distance calls from the phone, and move into the guest room, you know what I mean. I felt we were more than separate individuals. We were woven together so none of us had to face the world with only our own strength.

People who say they have seen heaven tell us there are countless radiant beings around the throne of God, inside walls and gates of pearls and precious stones, looking at their father and praising and thanking him with love pouring from everyone, in every direction.

This Christmas, in my heart, I realized what we experienced in Kentucky was a picture of what residents of heaven enjoy every day. It made me feel warm and safe. I was in my big house all by myself, my grandparents were dead, my aunts and cousins generally were no longer interested in relationships with me, my wife was nearly 8,000 miles away, but I had the same basic feeling I used to get in my grandparent’s family room as the kids tore wrapping paper off presents.

Now that I think about it, my house, more than any of my aunts’ or male cousin’s houses, is like my grandfather’s house. I have no kids, but I have brothers and sisters my father in heaven gave me, and I have two godchildren and a bunch of other kids who care about me. They are always welcome to visit. They are safe here, to relax and enjoy each other’s company.

When I was young, I had the feeling I was my grandfather’s son. My dad had this feeling, too, but he would never have said it. He knew his bad behavior had made it impossible for me to look up to him the way I looked up to my grandfather, and when he got older, he developed the habit of saying “your father” when he really meant my mom’s dad.

In my heart, I felt my dad was a problem, not an asset. He was just someone I had to manage and humor in order to avoid problems. My grandfather was different. I was proud to be his grandson. Everywhere we went, people gathered around us to talk to him. Men wanted his counsel and his help. Women wished they were married to him. With my dad, it was different. When I walked around our neighborhood, I knew everyone there had seen police cars outside our house, and maybe they had seen him half-dressed, taunting the police because they knew he couldn’t be arrested for public drunkenness or disturbing the peace as long as he didn’t leave his doorway. I knew the other dads bought their wives and children more things than my dad bought for us, and no one was afraid when those men entered a room. My dad was not very violent with me, but because of the way he had treated my mother in front of me, I couldn’t help being scared of him.

My dad became a loving, doting, Christian father during the last years of his life, but things were different when I was young.

My grandfather didn’t have any boys. He had 4 girls, and he made considerable effort to get the same things from them he would have gotten from sons. He tried to interest two of them in the outdoors, which didn’t work. He sent my mother to law school, where she promptly selected a fiance, got married, and quit. His first male grandchild was older than I was, but my mother was his favorite daughter, so the first male didn’t get the bond I got. I was the one. The next male that arrived was a terror the adults fantasized about slapping, so among the first 4 children, I looked pretty good, and my position was safe.

Now that I’m an adult, I feel I am more of an heir to my grandfather than the others. I didn’t inherit any more wealth than they did, but my place among the people close to me is more like his.

My life is largely shaped by my experiences with him. The pleasure I got from being with him shaped my desires. Like him, I love the country. I live on a farm. He had cattle; I have cattle, although the ones on my farm belong to a tenant. I have tractors because he used to set me on the fender of a Massey-Ferguson and let me ride while he raked and mowed. He used to put me in the driver’s seat and let me drive while he shouted instructions. I love guns because he and I shot and hunted together, and like him, I have a gun room in my house.

I think of myself as someone who turned out barren, but I am more of a patriarch than my 4 male cousins, all of whom had kids. Like my grandfather, I participate in other people’s upkeep. He let my divorced aunt live on one of his farms rent-free for years. He bought cars for his daughter. He paid my sister’s high school tuition even though my dad was wealthy. He gave my mother money to invest. One of his sons-in-law was a hateful, black-hearted drunk who was very hard to like, but my grandfather invested a lot of money trying to keep his car dealership open. He gave his grandchildren calves and paid them the proceeds when they were auctioned. When I was a kid, sometimes he would slip me a fifty when no one was looking. He loved doing things like that. He never expected me to do anything for him.

When I got married, it never occurred to me that my wife should work. I would have been ashamed to let her do that. She doesn’t pay for anything. Yesterday, a cousin who still talks to me said that was remarkable. I was surprised. I had always assumed people would look down on me if I let Rhodah look after herself in Zambia.

When I call her every day, I love hearing her tell me she has spent her day relaxing. That’s exactly what I want to hear. She should shop, cook nice food, read the Bible, pray, minister to others, drive around to see people, and watch good teaching. She should enjoy the home she lives in by herself. The less work she does, the better I like it. I don’t think my male cousins have that attitude. Two are divorced, and I believe the wives of the other two work. The cousin who was surprised I supported my wife is divorced, and her husband abandoned her son. I have another female cousin who seems to have done better. Her first husband was man of good intentions, and I hear complimentary things about the man she married after he died.

Sometimes when I ask my wife what she has been doing all day, she grins and says, “Sitting!” I always tell her I hope she didn’t overexert herself.

I think it’s okay to say I do things for my wife. Jesus cautioned us against telling others about our charitable deeds, but supporting your wife isn’t alms. It’s the fulfillment of an obligation. Bragging about doing things for your wife is like bragging that you brush your teeth. No one should be impressed.

When my mother and father got married, my grandfather bought them a new DeSoto. It was extremely ugly. It was grey with an orange roof. He paid to have the paint improved. He put a red roof on it! At least he tried. Of course, he paid for the wedding, including my dad’s clothes. He rarely drank, but he had a few drinks at the wedding, and before my parents drove off, he took all the money in his pockets, which would have been a lot, and he made them take it for their honeymoon.

That’s the kind of person I want to be.

Maybe God gave me my grandfather and made me a little like him so I would understand what it felt like to be the patriarch. To be a patriarch is to be like God. It’s a very good thing to provide abundance, safety, and shelter. It’s good to overcome the selfishness of my youth so it can’t disgrace me in my old age.

When we are together in heaven, it won’t be like being in church. When I used to go to church, I liked the people around me, but the bonds weren’t that strong. Many of them were hypocrites who didn’t really belong to God’s family. Most of them didn’t know me. When I stood among them during services, it was not much different from standing among total strangers. In heaven, we will feel a family bond like the one I felt in my grandparents’ house as we stuffed ourselves and opened presents. It will be a family reunion, very literally.

Sometimes I have been concerned, and occasionally resentful, about the demands people have made on me. It has annoyed me to hear new requests from people who weren’t making much effort to fix their lives. I believe that feeling is evil, and I try not to cling to that mindset. I always tell Rhodah it’s much better to be the one who gives than the one who takes, because if people are coming to you for help, it means you have, and they don’t. You are more blessed than they are. Rhodah feels the same way.

I can see why leftists, who hate the principles of God’s kingdom, hate Christmas and work so hard to erase it from the public’s culture. Their father is Satan, and Satan doesn’t want us to know we can be a family. He doesn’t want us to love patriarchy, because God is a father, and men who worship God correctly are patriarchs. He doesn’t want us to see the parallel between Christmas togetherness and the unity and love we will one day feel, assembled around the throne Satan will never again see.

Satan’s children want us to be a family, too; the fear-driven, self-centered, ruthless children of the global government and the Internet. He wants to hide the breast and give us a pacifier dipped in poison.

If my revelation from God helps you, then let it be my Christmas present to you. You have 364 days to prepare to receive the benefit.

Fictional Sleigh Delivers Unfortunate Present

Earlier today, I wrote a lot of material about Biden’s dementia being “discovered” suddenly by CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, but I decided not to publish it. A video took the wind out of my sails. Biden and his wife made the mistake of taking Christmas phone calls on camera. They were pretending to track Santa’s sleigh. One caller said, “Let’s go, Brandon!” Biden said, “Let’s go Brandon. I agree.”

He had no idea what was going on.

If you watch the video, you will also see Jill Biden coaching her husband. Even Jimmy Carter didn’t need that.

I saw the humor in the story, but I also saw the cruelty. The caller was picking on an elderly person with a mental handicap, in front of that person’s wife, on national TV. And Biden is the president of the United States, so his error was sobering. Our enemies around the world saw it. It was an ugly moment. It’s humiliating for America.

It was like the moment in The Caine Mutiny where Captain Queeg fell apart on the witness stand.

I love seeing liars proven wrong, and the leftists who have been pretending Biden was fine need to have their noses rubbed in what they did to our country, but I’m not thrilled to see America disintegrate.

The memes are going to be numerous and ruthless, and the left won’t be able to mount much of a defense. If Biden has forgotten what “Let’s go, Brandon” means, something is very wrong. If he never knew, then it proves people are handling and sheltering him like a prize beagle in a dog show. If he were of sound mind and truly in charge, he would know exactly what it meant. There is no way he would have let himself be filmed saying it.

In other news, my wild guesses about coronavirus seem to be panning out. Today I saw a doctor telling people the South African epidemic was collapsing. New studies are coming out confirming the obvious fact that Omicron is mild, so it looks like we have a mild variant replacing the old variant, and the mild variant takes a very short time to run its course in new host groups.

If these things are true, Omicron should be nearly gone in 20 days, and it should provide some degree of resistance to coronavirus in the future. It may be, as I hoped, nature’s vaccine. I think this will happen.

Could 2022 be the year smart people short Pfizer? Could Australians conceivably be released from house arrest?

Incidentally, let me reiterate: I have zero sympathy for Australians who voted to give up their rights. They need to suffer more, not less. Suffering may wake them up. I feel bad for the sane Australians who fought authoritarianism in vain.

I still think the macho posing of male Australians is ridiculous. They can’t have guns, they can’t have knives, they can’t carry any type of object as a defensive weapon, they can’t defend their families, and they cheer the people who are putting healthy Australians in an internment camp.

That Americans ever bought into the Australian independent he-man myth is proof we know very little about other countries. If Elizabeth Warren really wants to be president, she should move to Australia, but I think her work there would be redundant. For that matter, she might be considered too conservative.

Australia’s policies seem ridiculous to me. Coronavirus is a permanent feature of Australian life. Vaccines can’t end it, and neither will lockdowns or herd immunity. They can only minimize it by utterly ruining the quality of their lives, just as I could maximize my safety in the bathroom by hiring an attendant to strap me to the toilet. Doesn’t seem worth it to me. They’re trading liberty for safety, and they’re doing that in a very stupid way. They should be focusing on insulating the fat, old, and sick instead of tormenting everyone.

One great thing about coronavirus is that it has exposed the hypocrisy of many people who lied about loving freedom. Most people care very little about freedom as long as they get a room, a bed, a TV, and a full refrigerator.

I am hoping God sent Omicron to give the world a break. It wouldn’t mean the apocalypse wasn’t upon us, any more than a break in labor pains means a woman isn’t pregnant, but it could make it easier to prepare for whatever comes next.

I still think coronavirus is largely about sexual sin. The other day I was in my car with an audio Bible playing, as always, and I heard this passage from Leviticus:

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

This appears after a long list of forbidden perversions. Oddly, it doesn’t mention plain old fornication. It’s about things like incest.

Lying and/or deluded homosexual activists like to claim the sodomy prohibition was only about pagan temple prostitutes, but that’s wrong. It’s found a big list of sexual aberrations unconnected with worship and idolatry.

It shows that God gave Israel to the Jews at least partly because of the sexual perversion of the gentiles. He really hates perversion. He took favor, which includes things like prosperity, health, and dominance, away from perverts and gave it to the Jews to drive them out. Today, it looks like he has taken favor from the homosexuality-proselytism epicenters of America and Europe. Meanwhile, Christian Africa is doing well. Cases went up sharply in Zambia after Omicron hit, but virtually no one is dying, and their rates are still many times lower than those of Florida and New York State.

I feel like writing about Christmas. I’ll be on my own this year, but on the other hand, this will be my first Christmas as a married man, so I don’t care. I’ll have my wonderful wife on Whatsapp, and some friends have sent presents. That’s plenty for me.

I realize Jesus probably wasn’t born in late December, but Christmas, properly observed, is still a wonderful holiday. I lived a filthy life, and an innocent man chose to take my punishment. It’s good to be reminded that I am like an ex-con in a halfway house, receiving every good thing I have as charity, not as payment for a job well done.

Hope everyone who reads this draws closer to God today and tomorrow. We are headed for a time when it will be increasingly obvious that human beings can’t relieve their own suffering, so you need to be intimate with the only one who can set you apart.

Omicron is Mild. Or it’s Not.

Once again, the news about coronavirus is proving itself unreliable. A study from England says Omicron is no milder than Delta. Scary. But in South Africa, where the Omicron wave started manifesting on tests on about November 22, doctors say the hospitalization rate for Omicron is much, much lower than it was for Delta. The stats also suggest the Omicron wave is already ending. There is a well-defined peak in the curve, and it happened days ago. Since then, the curve has dropped off quickly.

Sometimes coronavirus waves have multiple peaks, so maybe Omicron will rebound in South Africa, but things look good now. South Africa has had three other waves, and for some reason, they don’t have multiple peaks. No idea why that happened.

South African doctors say the measured hospitalization rate for Omicron is 1.7% now, and comparing apples to apples, the rate for Delta at the same point in its wave was 19%. So they’re measuring a 90% drop in severity, as measured by hospital admissions. And the death rate is not going up along with the case rate.

No one can really say how many cases there are in South Africa or the UK, and no one really knows how many are Omicron, but if Omicron weren’t mild, we ought to have some evidence by now.

Who is right? THE SCIENCE in England says we’re all doomed. THE SCIENCE in South Africa says Omicron is about like a cold, and it says Omicron might function as a natural vaccine that will make coronavirus nearly harmless. Sure, England’s SCIENCE is based on a study, but South Africa has had Omicron longer, and its doctors are well able to tell the difference between full ICU beds and empty ones.

I think Omicron is milder. I am perfectly happy to assign my own judgment more value than that of the physicians who did the UK study. Doctors are notorious for being bad statisticians. They have told us no end of stupid things based on bad methodology. They used rabbits to predict that eating eggs caused vascular disease in humans. They did a study on bird owners and determined that parrots caused lung cancer, failing to mention the fact that the overwhelming majority of people in the study smoked cigarettes.

I don’t understand the medical establishment. On the one hand, it does brilliant and truly amazing things every day, but on the other, its stupid mistakes keep piling up, along with the bodies of people who listen to its bad advice.

Right now, it’s the medical establishment that tells people to castrate their sons and turn them into freaks, simply because sexual deviation is now considered chic. That’s something to think about when you read coronavirus news. In response to modern medicine’s insanity, many people have said something like this: “when I was 8, I put on a dress and told my parents I was a girl, and they told me to knock it off and waited for it to pass, which it did.” It’s a lot easier to take a dress off than it is to sew your discarded, incinerated penis back on.

But psychiatrists, endocrinologists, and surgeons are getting their big fees, so there is an up side to all of this. The craziness is helping BMW and Mercedes dealers stay in business.

A doctor who helps a confused boy remove his genitals should have his own genitals removed if the boy changes his mind after surgery. If we made them do that, they would be a lot more careful about their decisions.

Omicron is milder than Delta, with or without vaccination. This is my official prediction, based on news stories and my own hunch. If I turn out to be wrong, it won’t matter, because no one listens to me, but I felt like blogging it before all the news comes in. Let’s see what happens.

If the downward turn in the South African curve is predictive, then a more surprising outcome is on the way. Omicron might only last a month wherever it hits. I mean the first Omicron wave. That would be interesting. I thought it would affect more people.

Here’s something truly weird: Zambia seems to be leveling off. Zambia went from near-zero covid to around 1,000 cases per day, very quickly. Now it seems to be plateauing. My wife shows me stats from inside Zambia, and the infection rate doesn’t seem to be increasing any more. Maybe it’s just a lull, but based on what happened in South Africa, maybe it isn’t.

New York State has the same population as Zambia. New York’s last daily figure was over 28,000. New Yorkers live with oppressive anti-coronavirus laws, and Zambians don’t do a whole lot to protect themselves. Their vaccination rate is tiny. What is the explanation for New York’s higher infection numbers?

Other Christian African countries are still experiencing very low numbers. The USA, which is the world’s most forceful advocate of homosexuality and other sexual aberrations, and which uses harsh economic punishments to coerce Christian nations to follow suit, is still the world’s biggest covid reservoir. Our death number is almost twice India’s, and India has a billion people and a bad public health system.

Maybe it’s a coincidence, but African countries that acknowledge Jesus and discourage perversion, and which have had national days of prayer which were proclaimed by their governments, are still experiencing protection rich, sick America isn’t getting.

They’re telling us the Johnson & Johnson shot, which I received, is no good against Omicron. They’re also saying we shouldn’t take it in the future because of a risk of blood clots. At the same time, the mRNA shots have been found to damage genes in ways that prevent damaged DNA from being repaired correctly. The pro-hysteria press isn’t making much of the mRNA-shot problem. Is it because the damage isn’t harmful, or are we witnessing the usual press dishonesty?

I am no doctor, but how can it be a good thing if damaged DNA puts itself together in the wrong way? When I was young, I was taught that this is how cancer and birth defects were caused. For example, I was taught that some radiation particles sever DNA strands, and faulty repair leads to cancer. Isn’t it important to have DNA in good working order? Various websites say it is. It seems self-evident, but I know nearly nothing about DNA.

I know my wife and I will not be taking mRNA shots. The press has lied to the world over and over, as have governments, as has the medical establishment, and they have also spread misinformation unintentionally. Only an idiot would trust the news without investigating. If billions of people now have genetic damage that prevents proper repair to corrupted DNA, how can it be a good thing? What if a cancer pandemic or a birth defect pandemic is on the way?

When my mother was carrying me, she had morning sickness, so her doctor recommended thalidomide. Thalidomide! Go Google the word and look at the pictures. That could have been me, with one twisted flipper instead of four normal limbs. She had a mysterious bad feeling about it and refused to take it. I have a bad feeling about mRNA shots, but unlike my mother, I have facts to back my feeling up.

Thalidomide was rigorously tested before it was released for sale, but somehow, it didn’t occur to the manufacturer to test it on pregnant women. An American FDA employee, Dr. Frances Kelsey, had a problem with that, so she held up approval and prevented a catastrophe. The mRNA shot hasn’t been tested on pregnant women, either. It was rushed, so we don’t know what the long-term effects may be, and science isn’t advanced enough to let us guess. Most people who have gotten the mRNA shots haven’t had time to get pregnant and have a baby since they were injected, and the vaccines were developed in less than 9 months, so we know Pfizer and Moderna have no data. They’ll have it in a couple of years, though. Babies are being born.

Vaccine recipients also haven’t had time to develop cancer.

Thalidomide was not FDA-approved when my mother’s doctor tried to prescribe it. Nonetheless, for some reason, it was released on the American public for testing purposes, by doctors who were just as serious and highly trained as doctors are today. I guess lab rats were considered too expensive. Over 1,200 American doctors were given thalidomide, and incredibly, they prescribed it even though they knew the FDA had problems with it. They only managed to create 17 deformed living children in America, as contrasted with the 10,000 that were born in Germany. I could have been number 18.

I’m not exactly excited about blood clots, but that ship has sailed. The establishment says the risk passes after 28 days, and my shot was in April, so I’m not lying awake nights, but I am reluctant to take a booster, and my wife flat-out refuses.

The funny thing is, I want to be vaccinated. I sound like an anti-vaxxer, but I was very happy to get injected when Johnson & Johnson’s shot became available. I get flu shots. I tried to get a pneumonia shot, but they wouldn’t give it to me. I’m planning to get a shingles shot. I just don’t want shots that could be more dangerous than coronavirus.

I wish I could just trust the press and my government, but it’s impossible. The press is squashing stories about the big coronavirus riots in Europe, and our government officials aren’t talking about them either. They’ve hidden a huge story from hundreds of millions of people. If they can do that, imagine what else they can do. We wouldn’t know it if women in Europe were giving birth to chickens.

Freedom of information in America is an astounding, facially untenable delusion. Somehow most of us cling to it. Even with the Internet, which was supposed to be a gaping hole in our press’s wall of lies, we still have a hard time getting information about many things, and deliberate obstruction is the reason.

I know a vaccine isn’t the mark of the beast. I know it won’t make me magnetic. I know it doesn’t contain microchips. I’m not a conspiracy nut. I think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, I know the earth is round, I don’t think Antifa rioted at the Capitol, and I am positive Elvis is dead. On the other hand, I recognize a real conspiracy when I’m slapped in the face with it every day, and the unreliability of the carefully-shaped information that reaches us is beyond dispute.

I hope Omicron turns the hurricane of the pandemic into a mild drizzle. I have no doubt that coronavirus is an end-time teaching tool, and overall, I expect disease, hate, and shortages to increase, but that doesn’t mean this particular disease can’t lose its punch.

I think what a month from now, coronavirus will be much less scary than it is now, and it should give me and the wife an excellent opportunity to get together again with fewer rules and neurotic government obstruction. After that, maybe coronavirus may turn into something like a cold, which never disappears but almost never harms anyone. Or we could get a Pi variant which will make the Black Death look like hay fever.

I’m assuming there is no Chinese communist official named Pi. If so, the next variant will be called Ro. The last thing the WHO wants to do is offend the people who released this thing on the world and covered it up.

Chinese virus! Chinese virus! Kung flu! Shanghai shivers! Yes, the CCP has blood on its hands. I love saying it publicly. It’s not racist. The truth can’t be racist. Actually, leftists say math and logic are racist, so maybe the truth is racist after all.

That’s not a problem. We are well on the way to banning truth.

Time to Buy Mountain Real Estate

Today I learned about the newest imminent threat to human survival: the Thwaites Glacier.

A glacier is a river of ice, more or less. It sits on land, and it moves slowly downhill and into the nearest body of water. The Thwaites Glacier is an England-sized glacier in Antarctica, and it seems to be melting and becoming less stable. I just saw a hysterical news report attributing the melting to global warming and claiming the glacier’s collapse could raise sea levels by 3 meters (10 feet).

The reporter, one Palki Sharma of India’s World is One News service, says this is a “projection,” not a possibility. Unfortunately for her credibility, it is neither.

I own property that is probably less than 10 feet above sea level, so when I saw the story, I (unlike most people) decided to find out what was going on. I looked at Wikipedia, which certainly gets its share of contributions from millennial environment-crazed leftists. No mention of an impending catastrophe. I found a website devoted to the glacier. Still nothing. Finally, I found a BBC report, quoting researchers. Guess what? The actual projection is 65 centimeters, and such a rise is not expected for “many centuries.”

Is the BBC losing its wokeness? Of course not. It’s controlled by leftists. If the BBC is optimistic about any environmental issue, you can bet the scientific consensus is on the same page.

I saw an Internet comment attributing the glacier’s problems to something other than global warming, and I found out the comment was correct. Guess what’s under the glacier? New volcanic activity, along with the heat it brings. This appears to be the main reason the ice is melting.

Someone help me understand how cow flatulence and wonderful Western lifestyles like mine contribute to changes in volcanic activity. I would really like to see the Powerpoint.

Palki Sharma thinks we need immediate action to prevent the world from going under the waves. She wants a drastic cut in emissions. It’s sad that a journalist people listen to is willing to issue opinions concerning engineering and science, which could affect the prosperity of billions of people, without making a responsible effort to learn the truth.

She thinks a disastrous change in the glacier’s seaward end will happen within the next 5 years, so she believes we need to get rid of emissions right away. It makes me wonder what she studied in school. No STEM person with any sense would say such a thing.

Assuming global warming is significant and caused by human activity, which is a huge assumption, if human beings quit giving off CO2 right now, the world’s climate wouldn’t change much at all during the next 5 years. Even wacked-out vegan scientists admit that. They say change takes decades. If the glacier is going to open up within 5 years, there is nothing we can do to stop it.

Why didn’t she look into this? My guess: political science degree. History, maybe. Or, and it pains me to write it, communications. The major people flock to when they can’t wrap their heads around basket weaving.

Her network is all about promoting India at the expense of China, Russia, and America. Why, then, would she carelessly promote a move that would keep India weak and poor? India needs modernization. It’s very backward. It doesn’t even have a good power grid. Indian machine tool companies still make lathes built to run off flat belts connected to overhead shafts turned by steam engines. Everyone else abandoned these maybe 110 years ago. If India can’t make CO2 in large amounts while it steps up its game, it will never be a prosperous modern nation.

Is the goal to bring other countries down to India’s pitiable level?

I’m starting to wonder if World is One News is like the Epoch Times and RT, which are primarily political instruments. Maybe it’s not a journalistic organization. Maybe the whole point of its existence is to spread propaganda to undermine large countries that have interests adverse to India’s.

I have to wonder how many sacred, useless cattle there are in India. Is Palki Sharma willing to have them slaughtered in order to stop climate change? That would go over big.

As for the best-known disaster currently in the news, it’s looking like I may have been right about the Omicron variant. South African scientists say it still appears to be a very mild disease, and it’s so common, it has been found in sewer water less than 100 miles from me, in a little city in Central Florida. If it’s in the sewers of lazy Central Florida, it’s in people all over the world. If it’s this widespread, and the mild symptoms hold up, it will be a huge blessing. Better to get the sniffles and gain immunity to future infections than to get Delta and risk serious problems. Omicron could “vaccinate” millions of people who would otherwise refuse to be vaccinated, and that could be very helpful.

I’ll make another SWAG about Omicron. It will turn out to be much more common than they think it is. I learned that ordinary tests don’t distinguish Delta from Omicron, so presumably, there are a huge number of cases that haven’t been identified. The Omicron wave has already started in America and many other places. It’s not coming; it’s here.

Last week, Zambia was having something like 15 new coronavirus cases per week. My wife in Lusaka says they’re about to tell the world they found 400 today or yesterday. That can’t be the Delta variant, because it has been all over Zambia for months. It came and went. Omicron is the only obvious explanation.

Florida just went from about 1500 cases per day to around 4000. That’s not Delta. No way. Delta peaked in late August, and there is no reason why it should come back. About 2500 of those cases must be Omicron.

To me, it all adds up to a helpful, highly contagious variant that will displace strains that are more harmful, while increasing our immunity.

The big question is what the next variant will be like. Delta was worse than Alpha. Omicron is much better than both. Will Pi be a killer or another coronavirus cold?

As a person who picks up useless trivia, I know that viruses generally become nicer as they mutate, but recent reading tells me they sometimes get meaner.

It looks like scientists are fairly sure of one thing: we will be getting new strains forever, just like we get new flu strains, so repeat vaccinations will be a fact of life unless covid mutates permanently into a series of viruses that don’t make us very sick.

Whatever the future holds regarding new variants, I am pretty pleased with Omicron. Maybe next week we’ll start seeing a lot of deaths, and I’ll be sorry I wrote that.

Final apocalypse-related note: my friend Mike persuaded me to listen to Brian Williams, the NBC journalist who got in trouble for serial lying. NBC didn’t fire him, which is a shame. He kept broadcasting, and as you probably know, he just quit. He made a weird announcement about his concerns for America’s future.

Mike told me to listen to him instead of reading abbreviated quotations, so I gritted my teeth and did as instructed. I still don’t know what Williams is talking about.

He claims he is neither liberal nor conservative, but an institutionalist. I looked that word up, and it means nearly nothing. Something about respecting established forms, especially with regard to religion. Maybe he needs some help figuring out what he is. Here I am to save the day, a la Mighty Mouse: he’s a liberal. Maybe he thinks he’s not because he’s somewhat more certain of his gender than many of his colleagues, but he is. Go read up on his history.

He says politicians want to burn America down with us inside it, in spite of their educations. What does that mean? Mike thought he was talking about the Deep State, implying his hands were tied by it. I didn’t get that sense at all. I assume it will turn out Williams is talking about conservatives who dare to go to rallies and support the Second Amendment and so on. I think he’s still on a January 6 kick. I’ll bet he’s thinking about people like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. I very much doubt he’s concerned about BLM’s riots, murders, and arson, or about Antifa’s, or about the armed gangs of racist looters that are taking over retail areas in leftist-controlled cities. I don’t think he’s concerned about leftist politicians who did away with cash bail, support BLM and Antifa, refuse to prosecute violent thieves, and pretend black-on-corporate looting isn’t happening.

I still maintain that 1/6 was a much smaller deal than it was made out to be. Leftists love to say it was an insurrection, as though we nearly saw overloaded helicopters ferrying survivors off the Capitol dome. An insurrection is the attempted replacement of one government with another, and it requires a plan, armed troops, and a lot of support. January 6 was a bunch of unarmed halfwits who got excited about election fraud and decided they could do what leftist rioters had done elsewhere without consequences. January 6 was the political equivalent of streaking at the Super Bowl. They thought they could protest inside a building belonging to the federal government and get away with it. They didn’t bargain on Congress’s horror at seeing its lax first-stage security overrun and exposed, or on the difference between occupying a federal building in Portland and occupying the one Congress uses, or on the pro-left bias of the courts.

They probably thought they could briefly interrupt the processing of the election results, but there is no way they could have believed they were going to undo the election or mount a coup.

No one–not even a truly stupid individual–could expect to overthrow the government by having a few giddy, selfie-taking protestors run amok in the Capitol. D.C. has a police force armed with machine guns. We have an army, too. Everyone knows these things.

The violence and casualties of the riot were grossly overstated. If you died from atherosclerosis during the riot, two blocks away, you were considered a casualty. It didn’t begin to assume the same scale as mostly-peaceful violence perpetrated by leftist groups.

Let’s see what Williams is saying a month from now. I think “institutionalist” will turn out to mean something a lot like “socialist.” Place your bets.

Of course, if you live near the ocean, you may not be around to see what happens. Not if Palki Sharma is right.

I feel that the end of the age is closer than ever. I wouldn’t be surprised if God took his people away by Christmas. Insanity is the norm now. Demonic activity is off the charts. I don’t think anyone still expects life to return to normal. We have the feeling we’re waiting for something else, but most people don’t know what it is.

The World Prefers the Disease to the Cure

It’s surprising how hard it is to find out where the Omicron variant has taken hold in the US. I had to do several searches and compare results. Here is the most up-to-date list of states I was able to locate:

California
Colorado
Connecticut
Georgia
Hawaii
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Utah
Washington
Wisconsin

I’ll save you some trouble: the number of states is 17. And as you can figure out for yourself, that’s almost exactly one third of our states. Since California, New York, and Pennsylvania are on the list, it’s a large fraction of our population.

Here’s a question to which I have not seen the answer in the press: how good is the world’s ability to test for Omicron? How can we know where it is if we can’t test for it?

It has been less than two weeks since Omicron was reported to WHO (Should I call it “the WHO”?), so can it be possible that every nation in the world now has test kits that distinguish Omicron from Delta?

Another question: does Omicron show up at all on tests that detect the more-familiar variants?

If the old tests don’t pick up Omicron, we may have Omicron all over the place and not know it, especially if it’s mild. A lot of people would get false negatives, and if they weren’t very sick, many others wouldn’t bother getting tested.

If Omicron testing isn’t available everywhere, and Omicron doesn’t show up on the old tests, then a lot of Omicron cases are hidden. If Omicron testing isn’t available everywhere, and Omicron does show up on the old tests with no indication that it’s Omicron, then who knows how many Omicron cases are misidentified as Delta?

You could go nuts listing different factual scenarios and trying to figure out the consequences.

Our leaders, scientists, and journalists are completely incompetent when it comes to presenting facts that help the public understand what’s happening. I assume scientists are thinking about the important questions, because they would have to be really stupid not to, but their logic is not filtering down to you and me. Politicians are generally not smart enough to figure out what’s important, and journalists are even less bright.

Let’s look around the web.

Wikipedia has the answer, or maybe it doesn’t. It says existing PCR tests are able to “detect the variant.” That’s not the answer we need. We don’t just need to know if the tests detect the variant; we need to know whether they distinguish it from other variants. When you say a test detects a variant, you’re not making it clear that it can discriminate. Maybe the old tests tell us coronavirus is present, without saying which kind.

It’s safe to draw a few conclusions. It’s clear the public has no way of knowing where Omicron really is, how many cases there are, and how bad the symptoms are. Science doesn’t know these things yet, so neither do we.

Nothing much is happening in Zambia with any strain of coronavirus. The country is a car ride away from South Africa, but Zambia’s daily case count runs around 1/100 of Florida’s, for about the same population.

The Bible says that if God’s people will pray and repent, he will heal their land. I keep saying I think this is why Christian Africa is doing so well. Their leaders–political leaders, not just preachers–called for prayer. Joe Biden would sooner let Sean Hannity give him a polygraph than tell Americans to pray, especially in the name of Jesus Christ. It will never happen. It would be political suicide. The Democratic Party is firmly against Jesus.

I agree with preachers who say Christians ruined America. I tend to get angry at non-Christians who abuse and slander us. They have taken over our country, and they have made public life disgusting in many places. Still, as I have said before, the primary responsibility is ours. God says he will heal nations if his people pray, not if every citizen prays. We’re not doing it. Even our church leaders aren’t calling for prayer. They refuse to say sin caused the pandemic, which is unquestionably true. They’re terrified of becoming less popular and losing income and power.

We’re not confessing that we caused the pandemic, and we are not repenting and praying as a body. We have been failing in the areas of confession, repentance, and prayer for decades. That’s how we got here.

The church is weak and blind. When people consider coming to us for guidance, what do they see? Christians who can’t prophesy and tell them what their problems are. Christians who can’t heal their diseases or rid them of their sexual aberrations. Christians whose prayers for them don’t produce results. They also see Christians who are more interested in arguing with them and criticizing them than helping them meet God.

We ended up with a homosexuality epidemic because Christians couldn’t help homosexuals change. They couldn’t cast out the spirits involved. There was a time when everyone realized homosexuality was sick and destructive, and people who were suffering from it wanted relief, but we couldn’t do anything for them. No wonder they decided their affliction was natural and normal and that we were the problem. We definitely weren’t the answer.

We ended up with racial and class friction because our churches didn’t connect people with the Holy Spirit, who takes people of different races, nationalities, classes, and religious backgrounds and turns them into brothers and sisters.

I feel I got a revelation about my own relatively inconsequential problems. God told me something I knew already, and it applies to all Christians. We should be harder on phony Christians than we are on people who don’t know God at all. We fall into the trap of focusing on the unpleasant things nonbelievers are doing to us, and we behave as though they’re the big problem. They’re not. We cause our own problems by failing to submit to God. Hostile nonbelievers wouldn’t be able to touch us if we were truly transformed by the Holy Spirit.

We are our own worst enemies, literally, and after that come antagonistic spirits. Human beings are farther down the list. God once told me all my problems were caused by lack of prayer. He didn’t say “heathens.” He didn’t even say “Satan.” He didn’t blame my dysfunctional upbringing in a house of abuse and despair. Lack of prayer was number one. Since I chose not to pray enough, saying lack of prayer caused all my problems implied I caused them myself.

I have to quit letting my annoyance with people who hate Jesus and Christians divert my attention and move me to misplace blame. I have to stop saying things unnecessarily that will drive nonbelievers farther away.

I should be critiquing myself and making a point of laying into horrible, toxic clergymen. People who lie about doctrine and make up testimony in order to get rich need to be exposed. They know exactly what they’re doing, so they don’t deserve patience or mercy. Christians should be telling other people Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, and the other usual suspects are crooks.

I believe God is showing me that the reason I still have nagging sins I sometimes fall into is that I am overly critical of people who are no worse than I am. My failures are intended to remind me that I didn’t save myself. I was contemptible and determined to hold onto my faults. I would have been happy to sink farther into sin, die in blindness, and go to hell had God not intervened and fought with me.

I am too hard on people who don’t know God at all, and I am not hard enough on liars who pretend to know him in order to bleed those who come to them for help.

I believe these things are correct, so I will try to change my behavior. I think this will bring me breakthroughs and make me more useful in helping others. We shall see.

I’m sure I will fail a lot, but my course is more important than my location. Falling isn’t a big deal as long as you continue moving in the right direction when you get up.

Next Step: Prohibiting Masks?

We’re in the second week of the Xi Unicorn Omicron variant crisis, and so far, things look pretty good. By pandemic standards. A low bar to clear.

Is it okay to joke about coronavirus? There must be someone out there who is making a career of being offended by covid jokes. There has to be a “coronavirus community.”

So far, covid hasn’t turned out to be like AIDS. You can joke about cancer, diabetes, blindness, amputations, and all venereal diseases other than AIDS, but AIDS jokes are like people who won’t wear masks; they do not fly. AIDS sufferers are treated like heroes, and they even have a strange monument in the form of a quilt, but if you get herpes, people just make fun of you. We live in a world where humor related to a behavior-driven venereal disease is treated like blasphemy, but actual blasphemy is a staple of celebrated comedians.

“MY GRAMMY DIED FROM COVID! SHAME ON YOU!” Hmm. My mother, uncle, and aunt died from cancer, my sister and dad survived cancer, and I still make cancer jokes. Other people’s cancer jokes don’t offend me at all. I knew a guy who was dying of cancer, and he made cancer jokes during the process.

I haven’t noticed much sanctimony related to covid humor. I hope my perception is correct, but even if it’s not, I plan to keep my sense of humor while respecting your right to choose not to have one.

“Respect” is not really the correct word.

Let’s see. Omicron is spreading quickly, and scientists expect it to overtake Delta. So far, only mild cases have been recorded. That sounds like good news. We have been cautioned not to assume Omicron is milder than Delta, but within two or three weeks, the truth will be obvious. Here’s hoping we don’t see death spikes.

I saw that about 100 kids in South Africa had been hospitalized. That sounded bad. In the US, covid barely affects kids, and hospitalizations are very rare. Today I read that the South African children have mild cases. Why are they being hospitalized? Beats me. Quarantine? An abundance of caution? Anyway, the mild-symptom theory is still holding up, but it looks like Omicron doesn’t spare children the way Delta does. It appears lots of kids will catch it and become symptomatic, but we shouldn’t expect severe cases in children.

Hope that’s right. Imagine what life will be like if we start seeing waves of children with tubes down their throats.

It has become obvious that vaccines have no or nearly no effect on Omicron. Omicron is causing high-percentage transmissions among groups with high vaccination rates. That can’t happen when vaccines work. Maybe science can produce an Omicron vaccine, but until it does, don’t expect your old shot to do anything except, perhaps, make your symptoms less severe. Given the facts we have heard so far, with Omicron, such help may not even be needed.

Idiotic travel bans are still increasing. Zambia is now in the crosshairs. Countries that have thousands of cases per day are afraid to admit citizens of countries that have one or two dozen per day. Rhodah and I were hoping to go to France and the Netherlands, but France just slapped a quarantine mandate on Zambians, and I believe the Netherlands is currently banning them.

Day before yesterday, I mentioned the then-little-discussed possibility that Omicron might turn out to be nature’s vaccine, infecting huge numbers of people with a mild illness that would prevent them from having serious cases of a dangerous variant. Now another interesting thought has occurred to me: if Omicron turns out to be a godsend that prevents millions of deaths, will countries start imposing Bizarro travel bans? Will they start asking people from Omicron areas to fly in and spread the helpful variant? Will masks be outlawed?

It might be a great idea. Many people hate vaccines, human beings may never comply in numbers that make sense, and vaccines work poorly against Delta and show no sign of preventing Omicron infections. On the other hand, anti-vaxxers can’t prevent themselves from getting Omicron, which may act as a vaccine against severe covid. Vax-worshipers might start to see Omicron as an ally that can accomplish what their hysterical, irrational, fact-ignoring authoritarianism can’t do: it could sweep through countries and give just about everyone helpful antibodies.

If Omicron can do what St. Anthony of Fauci can’t, why not encourage the spread? It would save a large number of lives while restoring peace. Without a scary variant to be afraid of, the mask and vaccine Gestapo would no longer have any reason to torment people, so the anti-fascist movement (the real one, not Antifa) would have less motivation to protest.

It looks like a moot question, because Omicron doesn’t look like it will pay any attention to our plans. It appears to be poised to spread regardless of what man chooses to do, so my best guess is that by mid-January, we will know whether Omicron is a friend or enemy. By then, it should have spread so well we should have all the data we need.

Whatever happens, we know one thing for sure. Chris Cuomo won’t be reporting on it. I am taking the high road with regard to Corleone jokes.

I would say I was shocked that someone with Cuomo’s intellectual and ethical deficits was ever hired, but that would be ridiculous. This is the press we’re talking about. If government vans ever go around kidnapping brilliant people to crack Chinese codes and improve hypersonic technology, you will never see one stop in front of CNN, the big three, or Fox.

I was surprised to see CNN’s harsh report on Cuomo. After covering for him, they changed course and let him have it. They didn’t mince words. A conservative couldn’t have done better.

It makes sense, though. Why did CNN hire him in the first place? Because they thought he was the next Edward R. Murrow? Of course not. They knew he was inept even by journalist standards. Like Don Lemon, he was hired for what he was, not what he could do. He was the son of a governor and the brother of a governor. He was a nepotism hire. Either his brother and dad pressured employers to advance his career, or companies hired him to curry favor with his family and reward the Cuomos for being politically correct.

People who work with nepotism hires build up resentment, even if they support their hiring in a sort of realpolitik way. It had to burn a lot of CNN staffers, seeing Cuomo prove over and over again that he was incompetent while raking in millions they would never have the chance to earn. Once Andrew was gone, they must have realized they no longer had to maintain the farce. Some of them must have seen Chris’s fall as a welcome opportunity to toss an embarrassing son of privilege.

Now CNN can gain social credit while disposing of an embarrassing mishire and, in all likelihood, promoting someone who will be better for their ratings.

Cuomo’s Twitter account still boasts that he’s a CNN anchor and promotes the show he used to host back when he was employed. Wonder how long he’ll take to change it.

Speaking of social credit, it looks like AOC can’t get enough. She made a bizarre, mysterious remark to the effect that the flash looting epidemic didn’t seem to exist. Her claim was so crazy, the Walgreen’s corporation used its Twitter account to debunk it. That’s really something.

Ordinarily, corporations want to seem as hyperwokeded as possible. For some reason, they labor under the delusion that catering to far-left extremists will please the public. Half of America voted for Donald Trump, so I question the logic. Anyway, somebody at Walgreen’s must be getting tired of seeing minority-area stores close due to unprofitability caused by looters.

I always talk about the Jewish legends of Sodom and Gomorrah, which say the cities were known for shoplifting mobs. Here is a passage from Legends of the Jews, a book which contains the material I refer to:

The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah and the three other cities of the plain were sinful and godless. In their country there was an extensive vale, where they foregathered annually with their wives and their children and all belonging to them, to celebrate a feast lasting several days and consisting of the most revolting orgies. If a stranger merchant passed through their territory, he was besieged by them all, big and little alike, and robbed of whatever he possessed. Each one appropriated a bagatelle, until the traveller was stripped bare. If the victim ventured to remonstrate with one or another, he would show him that he had taken a mere trifle, not worth talking about. And the end was that they hounded him from the city.

This stuff comes from ancient Jewish writings which are known to contain gossip and untruths, but even histories which are largely corrupt usually contain a lot of accurate information. Think about it: even the most dishonest CNN story is probably 90% true. A lot of the Koran is probably true. I think the passage above is true. The parallels to our time are too strong to be coincidental.

The same book says the Sodomites eventually passed a law saying all visitors were to be gang-raped. There are American and Canadian cities where such treatment doesn’t seem impossible. They already have parades featuring completely nude men, and sex acts take place in the streets. The jump to raping strangers isn’t that big, and as a group, sexual deviants have a massive victim complex. Historically, such complexes have been used to justify horrific cruelty. It looks like a guy in Wisconsin just used one to justify killing 6 people with his car.

The book says the angels God sent to examine the city were inclined to recommend sparing it until the rape gang mustered. It also mentions gang looting as one of the sins that provoked the flood.

My personal take on AOC is that she is severely demonized. Her election was improbable, given her background, and it’s hard to find a natural explanation for the speed of her rise to power. Apart from that, she has those crazy eyes. She even looks demonized.

Things look bad for the world, but I’m not worried about myself. I keep getting indications I will be fine. Example: my wife just had a dream. She was walking north on a road, and she was with a lady who prays for people and prophesies. A group of black-and-white spotted cattle came walking down the road from the north. They were large, fat, healthy cattle. One of them broke from the herd, ran ahead of it, hugged the lady my wife was with, and then hugged my wife. It was thrilled to see them.

In the Bible, a pharaoh had a dream about fat cattle, and they represented years of prosperity. The coloring of the cattle in my wife’s dream suggests they were dairy cattle, not beef cattle. I never thought about it until today, but there aren’t any major beef cattle breeds that generally have black and white spots. You can only kill a beef cow once, but dairy cattle are reliable long-term providers. They would seem to represent sources of help that provide continuously. A cow gives milk every day.

The pharaoh also dreamed of skinny cows that represented years of famine. My wife didn’t see any of those.

Maybe the cattle represent the years of the tribulation, during which certain believers will be in heaven celebrating the marriage of Jesus.

I look forward to having my curiosity about the Omicron variant settled. I hope travel restrictions loosen soon, but humanity is not known for its collective common sense.

Illness or Nature’s Vaccine?

Bad news. My modified squirrel trap has not attracted any visitors.

Fed up with the continued destruction of my property by worthless rodents, I took a badly-designed trap and made some improvements. It has been in action for about 18 hours, and nothing has happened. I placed an order for a Squirrelinator, which is a factory-made trap dedicated to, well, you can guess. It should be here in the middle of next week.

I took a chunk of neurotoxic rat bait, smeared it with peanut butter, and put it in my chicken house, which the squirrels have turned into a resort. Later today, I’ll see if they’ve eaten it. I’m going to do whatever has to be done until I have a decent body count.

I have excellent rat baits made with an anticoagulant, but I was afraid to put them in the chicken house because I didn’t want hawks and owls to eat poisoned rodents and die. I’m reading up on it today. It looks like the Audubon Society recommends the anticoagulant as safe for predators, so maybe I should start using it.

In other news, I see another prediction of mine has come true. It’s not a big surprise, because I try not to predict anything that isn’t obvious. The Omicron variant has been found all over the place. Hawaii, New York, California, Colorado, Minnesota…it’s doing the blue state tour.

When we first heard about Omicron, which my wife inadvertently dubbed “the Unicorn Variant,” journalists and even scientists voiced “concern” that it “might” pop up in new places. I’m no epidemiologist, but I said that if you find one case, there are dozens of others you don’t know about. I said Omicron was already everywhere except places like Australia and New Zealand, which have sick, authoritarian rules. I was wrong about Australia, however. Omicron has been found there.

Australia is actually an Omicron hotspot, with more identified cases than America. Maybe arresting people and putting them in concentration camps isn’t working as well as they expected.

Of all the people on Earth, you would think Australians would be reluctant to put people in prison. You would think they had had their fill already.

The usual suspects also said they were worried the vaccines wouldn’t work well against Omicron. I wasn’t worried about that, because I already knew they wouldn’t. They don’t work well against any variant! Why would Omicron be different? The Dutch found 14 infected airline passengers, and today they’re telling us all 14 were vaccinated. If this surprises you, you should go in for cognitive tests and be very careful climbing airplane stairs.

A failure rate of 100% in 14 patients seems pretty bad to me, but then I am no doctor. I am no statistician, but it sure seems like the results could not have been worse. I can’t help feeling there just might be some predictive weight to this data.

I keep hoping Omicron will turn out to be a blessing. So far, there are no news reports suggesting the symptoms are anything but mild, but scientists say Omicron is extremely contagious compared to Delta. Put those things together, and Omicron might be the inoculation man couldn’t create. It might displace the nastier variants and give us resistance to them which would provide either immunity or safety from severe symptoms. It could turn coronavirus into the new common cold. Ineradicable, but not dangerous.

It may turn out to be the Omicron VACCINE.

Or it may kill a whole bunch of us.

We’ll know by the end of the month. That’s my new prediction, and like the others, it’s obvious. Omicron will hit thousands of people this month, if it hasn’t already, and it will have enough time to start producing deaths. If Omicron goes viral metaphorically as well as literally, and waves of deaths don’t materialize, sell your stock in mask manufacturers.

Now if we could just pay the Chinese to create a killer bug that only hits building contractors and tort lawyers.

And CCP members.

One thing is certain: if Omicron saves the world, the CCP will start pressuring smaller countries to call it the Xi Variant.

My understanding is that new diseases tend to become less severe as they mutate. Hope that’s correct. Didn’t pan out with smallpox, though.

If I get sick, my first move will be to blow my nose on my squirrel baits.

It’s amazing how dumb our statist overlords are. Why would anyone think it was smart to enact travel bans AFTER a new virus hit several countries? How badly did you have to do in elementary school math to think that was intelligent? We never find covid variants before they go around the world. By the time they’re detected, they’ve been carried all over the globe. Travel bans just add economic distress and feelings of powerlessness to our problems.

Speaking of feelings of powerlessness, I have realized they may be the worst consequences of covid. It has taught us man is weak and can’t fix his own disasters. It has taught us our governments have way more ability to control us than we had allowed ourselves to think. It has turned many of us into shuffling shut-ins who lack confidence in their ability to change their lives for the better.

It’s very important for people to think they can affect their circumstances. Take that away, and they develop what psychologists call “learned helplessness.” This is one of the reasons welfare states get worse, not better. People start sucking up government money, and they become convinced they need it. They believe going to school and applying for jobs won’t change their lives much.

When you pay someone so much for doing nothing he can’t significantly improve his lifestyle by going to work, he is likely to choose to stay home and make excuses. That’s exactly what’s happening right now. It’s turning America into a much more socialist state, and socialism is authoritarianism. Authoritarianism brings dystopia.

I believe feelings of powerlessness also breed hatred and resentment. If you’re helpless and someone else is responsible for your happiness, you will feel entitled to make that person miserable when things don’t go your way. This is one explanation for the intense anti-white racism in America. Blacks and Hispanics are taught that whites, Asians, and Jews cause them to live in squalor and crime through racism, but paradoxically, many think the people who caused their problem are the saviors who can fix it. They believe the rest of us have special powers we’re not using.

It’s crazy, believing a certain class of people is evil and responsible for your problems, yet running to them over and over again, expecting them to make things right at their own expense.

Why would you expect a malicious enemy to save you?

The rest of us didn’t cause the problems, we’re not malicious, we are not good enough to devote our lives to making things better for you, and even if we were, we couldn’t do it. You have to do some things for yourself.

Anyway, I’m convinced the pandemic has made things worse.

Maybe Omicron will save us from the pandemic. The apocalypse is a delivery process with labor pains, and labor pains come and go. Maybe we’ll get a few years of rest. I wonder. I tend to doubt it, because I have reason to think the rapture is imminent.

One nice thing about proof the variant has spread is that it should convince the nations of the world to drop recently-imposed travel bans. Rhodah and I were planning to visit the Netherlands, and they have an Omicron ban. Maybe they’ll show some common sense and relent.

As for the rapture, I had a disturbing dream last night.

For years, I’ve had dreams about airports. There are things about airports I don’t like. When you’re in an airport, you’re not where you want to be. You want to be somewhere else, which is why you went to the airport. Airports, then, are inherently representative of not having arrived.

Also, airports are dirty, the food is bad and overpriced, and while you’re in airports, you are subjected to degrading control through unreasonable rules.

At least the Hare Krishnas moved out.

Last night, I dreamed I was in the imaginary airport again. My second-oldest friend had been there, but he had left. His family was still there. He had gotten on an elevator to turn himself in.

In the dream, Nazis were in power. My friend and his family are Orthodox Jews. The Nazis were allowing people to turn themselves in. In the dream, you could get on an elevator, and as soon as you got to the bottom, you would be in Auschwitz. You would go through the death camp process and be killed and incinerated. By the time you turned yourself in, you were doomed. There was no way to change your mind and go home, and no one could rescue you.

I couldn’t believe what my friend had done. Why did he trust the Nazis? Even though it wasn’t possible, I tried to help. I saw another Jew, and I ran up to him and tried to tell him what had happened. I wanted to know if he had any idea what to do. He thought I was Jewish and that I was asking him to help me.

Nothing was done. It was already over when I asked for help. I knew my friend was somewhere down below, beyond help, regretting his choice.

I now think the airport I dream about represents the earth. You spend time here on your way to heaven or hell. You get routed one way or the other depending on what kind of ticket you chose. This place isn’t your permanent home.

I don’t know if my friend represented himself, someone else, or a class of people.

The Nazis were the state-worshipers and man-worshipers of the Earth. The beast’s troops. The vaccine-lovers and distancing freaks. People who are willing to give up all their rights because they’re terrified of death. They say, “Trust us, and everything will be fine.”

If the airport represents the earth, then there must be departing flights. You can either go up or down. That seems to be a very Jewish idea. Moving to Israel is considered a move upward, and people who leave are called “yardim,” meaning they descend. The name of the Jordan River comes from the same root.

That’s it for today. Two containers of maple syrup have arrived, and I need to test them. I might skip dinner food and make waffles.

This isn’t Happening

The wife and I are riding out another wave. The Xi Omicron variant is threatening to keep her in Zambia.

The name of the variant is one of the most interesting things about it. As you probably know, right-wing morons and conspiracy nuts have suggested coronavirus is a politicized disease. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s purely coincidental that the World Health Organization went through the Greek alphabet and chose the letter omicron, skipping the designation Xi, which JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE NAME OF CHINA’S SLEAZY PREMIER.

Personally, I call him Chi Penguin. Don’t ask me why.

Yes, when you’re concerned about the perception that wealthy, corrupt nations and business leaders are controlling the flow of information and spinning things so severely no one really knows what’s happening, the best way to build trust is to show you’re terrified of offending a slimy despot who is responsible for organ harvesting, slave labor, forced abortions, political censorship, political imprisonments, and the spread of coronavirus to the rest of the world.

I guess it’s a good thing the Greek alphabet doesn’t contain a letter called Joe.

As of this minute, several developed nations have banned travel from countries in southern Africa, where the virus was first detected. Zambia, miraculously, has been spared so far. Only the UK has banned Zambians, which is okay, because who in his right mind wants to visit England in the winter?

Rhodah and I are hoping for France and the Netherlands. I believe we just lost the Netherlands, but France still has not surrendered. Uncharacteristically.

I preferred to stay in France anyway, but Rhodah is still in that stage of life where she wants to cram as many countries as possible into every trip.

South Africans are mad because they’ve been banned. They say they’re being punished for discovering the variant, which was actually found first in a person from Botswana. They say it makes no sense for covid infernos like the UK to ban South Africans, who currently live in a not-too-disastrous covid area.

They seem to be upset because of the stigma as well. With regard to that, I think they’re whiners. Getting your lingerie in a knot over the fear that other countries may think a disease variant started in your country is silly. They start where they start. The Spanish flu started in the United States. Doesn’t bother me if people say so. I have to admit, though, we must have had a good PR team, hanging the pandemic around the neck of a country 3000 miles away.

At first, I thought Omicron was a bad thing, but now I’m wondering if it’s really a blessing. To the world, I mean. Not me and the wife. For us, it’s a royal pain.

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, the lady who informed South Africa’s government about the existence of Omicron, says every case she has seen has been very mild. I’m no epidemiologist, but…what if this is a milder variant that displaces the one that suffocates people?

What if Omicron infects a big percentage of the world, makes very few people seriously ill, and enhances their immunity to real coronavirus? That would be pretty cool, by 2021’s admittedly pathetic standards.

Edward Jenner, the man who first vaccinated people against smallpox, and who, as far as we know, never had his genitalia sliced off or insisted people pretend he was a woman, found that if he infected people with the mild illness cowpox, they became immune to smallpox. He found this out using a brilliant strategy. He infected a lower-class 8-year-old boy with cowpox, waited until he recovered, and exposed him to smallpox. The boy didn’t die, so they probably gave him a dose of the belt and put him back to work in the arsenic mine.

I guess guinea pigs were expensive back then. No use wasting money.

It would be nice if Omicron circled the globe and made us all resistant to real covid. That would be better than killing millions of us and making our vaccines look even sillier than they do right now.

Where will we go if France doesn’t work out? Turkey is still on the table, as one might expect two days after Thanksgiving, and because the lira is worth about as much as a MAGA hat in Detroit, everything in Turkey is very cheap.

Mexico is a possibility, but I am still detoxing after many years in Miami, and Mexico might activate my PTSD. If Miami is smallpox, Mexico must be cowpox.

I really don’t want to go to the Bahamas. If you don’t want to sit on the beach, fish, get drunk, or engage ladies of easy virtue, a Bahamas vacation basically amounts to 10 days of room service in a badly-cleaned room, cooked by some of the least-enthusiastic hospitality employees since The Shining. The people on some islands are nice, but we would probably have to go to Nassau, where I always got the impression that when restaurant and hotel workers saw me and my wallet walk in to pay their bills, it ruined their day.

When I was in Nassau, staying in a marina on PI, the whole area smelled like poop, flies were a big problem, and it was not unusual to see large pieces of excrement floating by with the tide. Trying to get people to wait on me made me feel like Patrick Swayze in Ghost.

All this being said, I would go almost anywhere to be united with my bride. Well. Not Miami. Not until I’ve ruled out destinations like Somalia, Antarctica, Pyongyang, and the active crater on La Palma.

Today I thought about visiting Zambia. The problem with that, apart from the obvious fact that I would be in Zambia, is that our president’s advisors or his certified nursing assistant might tell him to ban flights from Zambia, and then I would be stuck there until Kamala Harris, AKA The Girl with Colonoscope Eyes, took over and revisited America’s paranoia settings.

Here’s hoping that through Omicron, our kind and patient God accomplishes what man hasn’t been able to do in two years: flattening the curve.

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It looks like Youtube is deleting my comments. I knew they deleted videos, but I didn’t realize comments were on the beast’s radar.

I watched a video by an obscure Christian. His stuff typically gets a few dozen views. He was talking about coronavirus, which he chose not to call by name.

CORONAVIRUS CORONAVIRUS CORONAVIRUS. CHINESE VIRUS. CHINESE VIRUS. CHINESE VIRUS. KUNG FLU. KUNG FLU. KUNG FLU.

I just felt like saying those things on a site Youtube doesn’t control. I’m sure the beasty boys will delete this blog eventually, however.

Is Youtube using speech-to-text software to check videos for the word “coronavirus”? Wouldn’t be surprising. Speech-to-text should be a gigantic concern for people who love freedom, but for some reason, it is not. Speech-to-text allows our slavedrivers to have machines go through all our digital audio, turn it into text, identify things they don’t like, and allow our words to be used to turn us into unpersons.

Yes, I am still reading 1984.

Speech-to-text has a horrifying potential for abuse, yet conservatives don’t even talk about it as an issue! How can that be? It’s so obvious.

Anyway, I wrote a comment pointing out that Christian African nations had astoundingly low covid rates (in the area of 10 cases per day per nation) and noting that the blessed countries were did better than “gay-friendly”nations like South Africa, which has a big covid problem. Later on, I looked for my comment. The video’s stats still said there had been three comments, but mine was hidden. The creator didn’t do it.

We have a new variant and a new game. The variant is called “Omicron,” or, by some sources, “Nu,” because we haven’t run out of Greek letters yet. It has been found in South Africa, Botswana, Israel, and Hong Kong. For some reason, scientists suspect it developed in an immunocompromised person. It has lots of mutations, so it may render vaccines even less effective than they are now. They’re saying it’s likely it was an AIDS patient in South Africa.

This is all fascinating to me.

Covid seems to spare Christian African countries where the consensus is that God is against homosexuality, and here we are, looking at a new bug science thinks may have from from a person infected with a disease that required homosexuality in order to spread around the world. Anyone can get HIV, but virtually everyone who is infected is a homosexual man, a woman who had sex with a homosexual man, or an intravenous drug user (whose infection has a homosexual man in its lineage). It’s almost impossible for a heterosexual man to get it through normal sex. Were it not for sodomy, AIDS would never have left the place where it arose.

Given that all this is true, is it possible these two plagues will turn out to work together to create a genuine catastrophe? That would certainly reinforce the idea that sexual perversion is one of the things for which God is punishing the world.

Talking about plagues related to sin will get you relegated to the kook bin in a hurry these days. Most Americans are either non-Christians or nominal Christians, so they don’t believe in plagues.

Nominal Christians are remarkable. They claim to worship someone who said almost nothing they agree with! Among their patently non-Christian beliefs: all religions lead to God, everyone goes to heaven, hell doesn’t exist, Satan doesn’t exist, and miracles don’t happen. Believing things like these and calling yourself a Christian stretches the envelope of cognitive dissonance.

To believe these things, you have to believe Jesus was wrong. He contradicted these beliefs many times. To be a Christian, you have to believe Jesus is God. You can’t believe Jesus is God and think he’s wrong!

If you think God is wrong, especially about critical issues, you have a pretty funny definition of the word “god.” A god who lies or suffers from major delusions is no god. Worshiping such a god would be like worshiping a mental patient who runs around claiming to be Genghis Khan or even a Waldorf salad.

One of the weirdest nominal-Christian beliefs is that Satan and hell don’t exist. Jesus went on and on about Satan and hell. He claimed he met Satan personally. If you think you’re a Christian, and you think Satan and hell don’t exist, you must also think Jesus was deranged.

Female nominal Christians are especially likely to say Satan and hell don’t exist. Their reasoning? “God is love!” So in their view, God is love, but he lied about Satan and hell, or some kind of mental illness or fraudulent argument convinced him, falsely, that they existed.

If God is wrong about Satan and hell, why do you think he’s right about anything else? Why believe him when he says he is love?

Actual Christians know two things: plagues existed in Biblical times, and they will occur at the end of the age. The Bible describes all sorts of ancient plagues, including plagues of hemorrhoids and snakes. It also says pestilence will hit the earth as part of the apocalypse. That means plagues aren’t just for the ancients. If God could send a plague to David, he can send one to us today.

In short, pestilence is still caused by sin. Every bad thing is caused by sin. There has to be a relationship between coronavirus and sin. People and animals reward good with evil, but God does not. We are not good. We deserve hell, so we certainly deserve coronavirus.

Overall, countries that promote homosexuality seem to be getting hit harder than others. Islamic countries and countries that oppose Israel aren’t doing well. Christian countries where leaders called for national days of prayer seem to be faring conspicuously better than most.

There are countries that don’t fit these patterns. My impression is that most do well because they turn their citizens into prisoners. Imprisonment is also a curse, so they’re still suffering.

Israel has not done well. Per capita, its case numbers are about like Florida’s, although the death rate is a lot lower. The Orthodox got hit very hard, suggesting their religion isn’t helping them get divine assistance.

It’s not possible to say this many people got infected in this place because of this sin, or that many people got infected in that place because of that sin, and the patterns are not rigid, but the trends are undeniable.

The world’s nations should be turning to Jesus, confessing their sins to him, repenting, receiving salvation, and praying. These actions would solve the problem, along with humanity’s other problems. It’s not going to happen. The human race thinks disease is a random thing that hits the just along with the unjust.

I didn’t think covid was a big deal when it showed up in 2020. I underestimated the US death toll (which may be grossly overblown due to financial and political incentives). I thought it could become a major problem, though, given the possibility of mutations. That hasn’t happened yet, but the Omicron variant might be the beginning of a true plague.

Some scientists are concerned that the new variant could be 500 times as contagious as the old ones, and that vaccines may not deter it. Wouldn’t that be something? If it’s already loose in a bunch of countries, they’re not going to stop the spread, any more than they stopped the original virus. Are we headed for a huge pestilential iceberg?

I believe there are only two possibilities. Either humanity will turn to Jesus (not just “God”) and get help, or the disease will run a course determined by God, and that course might include a never-ending pandemic that continues mutating as long as mankind exists.

In the Bible, some plagues were limited by God regardless of how people responded, and others continued unabated until people repented and prayed. We don’t know which kind covid is.

We already have punishment diseases we can’t get rid of. We can’t get rid of AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, or herpes. It shouldn’t be a surprise to receive a new one. The big difference is that covid is much easier to transmit and affects more people.

Youtube is tightening its coils. That’s the main thing I wanted to point out. The journey to unpersonhood is well underway for genuine Christians. Satan and his children don’t want God’s children or his help. They would rather stumble around in the dark, relying on science, than change their attitudes or their behavior.

I just put a test comment up on one of my own videos. I want to see what Youtube does.

Interesting thing: Youtube tolerates a user named “Deport the Jews,” and a video about an anti-Semitic black celebrity claiming blacks are the real Jews has lots of comments like this one: “The truth is so hurtful to Satan’s children.”

The other day I speculated that God was deliberately humiliating scientists because they worship a false god. I didn’t go far enough. People also worship government. They’re not just relying on shots and distancing, which were given to us by science. They’re relying on government coercion. God is humiliating man for worshiping himself. That’s why the virus keeps defying man’s reason. It doesn’t matter whether the measures we take make sense. Even if they do, the pandemic will be here as long as God wills it.

By writing this blog, I have destroyed any future hope I had of fitting in with the combine’s thralls. I have set myself up for arrest, imprisonment, violence, impoverishment, and execution. Many millions of other people are in the same boat. The Internet doesn’t forget, and the beast’s children don’t forgive.

Hope I’m right about the rapture. Reading 1984 is fun, but I don’t want to live it.

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Busted.

I went to a couple of videos and posted comments I thought Youtube would not like. They vanished quickly. It’s confirmed. Youtube is killing free discourse. Not a big surprise.

I read that it was not possible to comment on BLM violence or terror, so I wrote a comment saying it was unfortunate BLM’s violence and terrorism were being used to displace repentance. Not a racist comment. Not misinformation. What I wrote was completely true, and it was a valuable contribution to public discussion. It expressed important ideas.

Doesn’t matter. Youtube hates free speech, so my comment is gone. Meanwhile, “Deport the Jews” still has an account.