Published a day late.

Suit Up

I keep saying three things:

1. Covid shots are not the mark of the beast.

2. People may be required to get vaccinated periodically, for the rest of their lives or until a cure arrives, and if they are required to produce proof they’re complying in order to work, travel, buy, and sell, the proof could be the mark of the beast.

3. Even if neither a vaccine nor a vaccine passport is the mark, mandates and passport requirements train us to obey, so when the time comes to take the mark, most of us will be conditioned to jump on command, do as we’re told, and torment everyone who refuses to do likewise.

This month I read that a local government somewhere–Germany, I think–was requiring people to produce proof of vaccination in order to buy food. I thought that was a big deal. I didn’t know until today that American cities were passing laws preventing unvaccinated people from going indoors in stores. If you can’t go indoors, shopping is not easy. Some stores will bring things out to you, but others won’t, and it’s not substitute for being able to see the things you need. Imagine letting a store employee pick out meat, raw seafood, or fresh produce for you. You would get some nasty stuff.

Los Angeles is what most people would consider a large city. It holds about 4 million people, or over 1% of Americans. In August, they passed a show-your-papers law that covers “retail outlets.” It went into effect yesterday. I wonder if they have dealt with the essential-products problem. I don’t see anything pop up in a cursory search.

Here is what Councilman and, no doubt, respected virologist and epidemiologist Mitch O’Farrell said:

“We’re not going to tell someone, anyone, that they have to get vaccinated. We’re also not going to deny anyone the ability to access essentials—food, medicine, etc.—regardless of vaccination. That wouldn’t be legal, that wouldn’t be moral. But what is immoral is choosing not to get vaccinated, choosing to listen to some delusional rant on Twitter. This is real life. Vaccines work.”

It’s immoral to tell someone he has to get vaccinated in order to go in a store, but it’s okay to force him to drive out of the city to get food, clothing, and other necessary items. Presumably, if the whole country had a similar law, it would be okay to tell us we could not shop anywhere.

He says vaccines work. Is that actually true? It depends on what you want the vaccine to do.

They used to tell us vaccines prevented us from catching covid. Remember that? They quoted very high effectiveness rates. Only a few months ago, they had to take the goalpost down and move it. “A few people could catch ‘breakthrough’ cases, but virtually no one will get really sick or die. Let’s put the goalpost down here.” “No, wait. A lot of people catch breakthrough cases, but virtually no one will get really sick or die. This is where the goalpost goes.” “Oops. People who were already at risk are very likely to get breakthrough covid, and they are still at a high risk of getting really sick and dying, but the vaccines will keep most people who don’t need them from getting something resembling a cold.”

It’s pretty obvious that vaccines can’t be relied on to keep infection numbers low. Germany and England have high vaccination rates, and covid has descended upon them again. The graphs show they’re in pretty much the same situation they were in when covid was at its worst. Thousands and thousands of cases, every day. These countries aren’t like countries in southern Africa, where unvaccinated people don’t distance and covid barely exists.

Scientists may have some theories about why this is happening, but from my lay perspective, it defies common sense. We are told vaccines will prevent the vast majority of people from being infected at all, and uninfected people can’t spread covid, so why are England and Germany in crisis? They’re doing as badly as Russia, where the vaccination rate is low.

If nearly 70% of the people in a country are vaccinated, and the vaccines are any good at all, maybe 50% of the population should be immune. On top of that, another big percentage should have natural immunity that follows recovery. So what should be in place to protect people? Maybe 65% immunity, plus distancing measures? But the cases keep piling up.

Vaccinated people are getting sick very commonly. There is a myth that nearly all of the people who get sick now are unvaccinated, but it’s incorrect. Vaccinations do a pretty good job of preventing infected people from dying, but infected vaccinated people can still infect others. And we are now being told vaccines only protect high percentages of people from dying if they’re not sick, fat, or old. In other words, they work very poorly on the only big groups of people who really need the protection.

It sounds like sick, old, and fat people are up against it. To most people, a covid infection is like nothing (no symptoms), a cold, or the flu, but to the sick, old, and fat, it’s a plague that carries high risks of death and permanent severe body damage.

The upshot of all this seems to be that the vaccine does a pretty good job of preventing infection and death in groups that were already generally safe, while doing very little for those who have the most to fear.

I would hesitate to say, “Vaccines work.” It’s like saying lung cancer treatment works. Some lung cancer patients do so well they die of old age. Most die from cancer. The vaccines seem to be doing a lot of good, but a sick, old or fat person would have to be nuts to expose himself to covid and think a shot would protect him.

I think state-worshipers should say, “Vaccines help.” That makes more sense. When you buy a medication at the drugstore and read the words on the box, they never say, “Blasto the laxative developed for rhinoceroses* will definitely fix your constipation.” They say, “Blasto helps relieve constipation.” “Helps.” If laxatives always worked, Elvis would be alive.

Vaccines help, but they’re not preventing a full-blown resurgence in some countries, including places where fairly stringent distancing measures have been taken. So is it okay to deprive people of their civil rights in the unsupported hope that it will keep covid from coming back?

Aren’t civil rights important? We used to think sacrificing a certain number of lives was preferable to living like prisoners. Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty, or give me death.” If he were a leftist in 2021, he would say, “Please don’t kill me. Please, please, please. I’ll do anything.” He would give his rights up in a heartbeat, and he would help the government take yours.

Liberty is important, and we are giving it up in exchange for vaccines that are not very good.

Leftists are telling us the vaccines are very good. No; they may be very good given the time we had to create them and the particulars of this virus, but they’re not very good in absolute terms. The polio vaccine is nearly 100% effective. Know any Americans who had polio after vaccinations began? The smallpox vaccine is said to be 95% effective, and it worked so well, smallpox doesn’t exist in the US. The rabies vaccine is virtually 100% effective. Those are good vaccines.

People have written that my covid vaccine, the J&J shot, may only be 66% effective, whatever that means. How would you like to be bitten by a rabid dog and hear a number like that?

Today I saw a Youtube video. I searched for tribulation dream videos, and I found a lady who says she has had the same dream over and over, her whole life. She was trapped on Earth during the tribulation. She was homeless. People were roaming the rural areas, squatting in empty houses. They knew they were enduring the tribulation, and they were in rural areas because they wanted to be outside the system.

That’s a remarkable dream. For a number of years, people like me have been moving to the country, to get away from the filthiness and social coercion of cities. If the rapture comes, what will Christians who aren’t taken find when they flee cities? Houses like mine, assuming I make it to heaven. Houses that belonged to Christians who were watching and waiting. Houses full of nonperishable food, guns, and ammunition. Houses with solar power, livestock, and gardens.

Until today, I thought God was urging me to stock up on guns and ammunition so heathens could take them after the rapture and murder each other. Maybe that’s not right. Maybe they’re for Christians who don’t make the cut. They will need help.

It’s consistent with the Youtube lady’s dream.

I keep saying things are moving more quickly than I expected. I’m saying it again. If we are put on a schedule of recurring vaccinations accompanied by a requirement that we carry proof with us in order to buy and sell, that proof may well be the mark of the beast. I thought they wouldn’t ban us from stores for a few more months, but they’re doing it today.

I got rid of my Youtube news-channel subscriptions in October, but before I did, I saw all sorts of mandate protests, and they were big. I saw them in Europe and America. I saw them in Australia, too. Then I went to American news outlets and saw nearly nothing. Even Fox sat on the stories. Fox isn’t all that sincere about conservatism. They talk a big game, and they pander, but they put all their New York employees on a mandate a long time ago. If they’re deliberately hiding protests in order to destroy our hope of winning and making us feel we have to toe the line, it’s not a surprise.

Fox isn’t a Christian organization, so nearly everyone at Fox will serve the beast when the time comes. Don’t expect anything different.

The tribulation, which Jesus called the hour of temptation, appears to be nearly here. I thought “temptation” referred mainly to suffering that would make people murderous and selfish. I saw it as a general thing. Recently, I saw someone on the web mention a specific temptation. He said we would be tempted to get the shots and the passport and serve the beast. That was the temptation that made the biggest impression on him.

He must have heard that from God. We are being tempted to hate each other and to be selfish, but the big sin that will doom people to hell is taking the mark of the beast. Temptation to commit that sin must be central to the conflict ahead.

People think you can never remove the mark of the beast and turn back to God. I wonder if that’s true. You can be a satanist priest and spew filthy insults at God every day and still be allowed to repent, so would God make it impossible for beast worshipers to repent? If I were dumb enough to let the government mark me so I could buy groceries, I would eventually be very desperate for another chance, and God is generally extremely generous with new chances.

*blind hat tip