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When I checked Worldometer earlier today the number of new deaths in the USA ended in 666! Coincidence? What do YOU think, Sheeple!
Oh, and don't forget the epicenter is (((NYC)))! |
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A Harvard study links air pollution to bad covid-19 outcomes.
Guess what is also likely to coexist with air pollution? Cell phone microwave electrosmog. Some defenders of Telcos will say that there are studies linking air pollution to illness, and I will say that there are studies linking electrosmog to illness - choose who you decide to believe. It is like the early days of the climate change debate. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hs...9-death-rates/ People with COVID-19 who live in U.S. regions with high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from the disease than people who live in less polluted areas, according to a new nationwide study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. |
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Well let's see.
Air pollution damages lungs, and Covid-19 affects lungs, so people whose lungs are already damaged by air pollution will be more likely to die from Covid-19. vs Cell phone electromagnetic radiation has no effect whatsoever on lungs, and Covid-19 affects lungs, so people whose lungs are not damaged by cell phone electromagnetic radiation will be more likely to die from Covid-19. It's a tough one. |
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ANyone know why Bill Gates is suddenly the boogey man for all things vaccine and NWO and pops up in Corona virus and 5G kook threads?
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More specifically his foundation has been a major funder of development of vaccines for the world's biggest killer diseases, so naturally he's the devil incarnate to the wilfully ignorant.
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![]() First they accrue riches on back of people and decades of abuse of various kind (in case of Microsoft things like monopolistic practices and making terrible, unsafe crap ridden with holes that everyone uses anyway). Then when they are getting old, very rich and start worrying about image of them left to next generation, they setup some charities for PR purposes. Do they really think it will make up for decades of corporate cronyism? I guess it works, judging by uncritical reception here. This is what robber barons of old did and this is what current bunch of moguls do. And everyone laps it up. What a joke. Only exception known to me is Elon Musk. He will not need to setup any charities to buttress his conscience. |
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Alfred Nobel showed the way
![]() As for the 5G nonsense, if that were true it would open up SO much in the fields of medicine and biochemistry. I mean it would make Pasteur's contribution seem like nothing. We'd be able to fight and destroy any infection and any tumor with impunity. Care to explain why we don't? |
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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I support the attempts to fight the virus. Survival of the fittest and the smartest.
Strangely the death rate in times of recession drops. This has been attributed to many factors. One is that there are less people on the road. Another is that people are less stressed without a job - the pressures of work are quite bad. This means that the death rate must climb drastically to reduce the population. Science has predicted that our current population is unsustainable. Okay. Apart from more waves of viral infection, what else is going to limit the population? |
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Birth control, driven by the education of women. The fertility rate has already dropped in developed countries (in many cases to below the replacement rate), and increasing education and empowerment of women in the rest will soon do the same there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projec...owth#Fertility
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This pandemic really has forced a lot of people to demonstrate that they're not 'lovable conspiracy idiots', but genuinely dangerous ********.
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On noes, only you and trump will be left...
Too bad this is not a standard regression, it is a Pandemic. Less stress? lol, Pandemic. Yes, the Motor-Vehicle deaths go down, that is true. Darn, suicides don't slow down, darn you almost had something. Heart deaths fall, but wait till we get out of the house, then the attack is back. COVID will take up the slack, and kill more than motor-vehicles. With 1,000 deaths a day, the virus is taking up the slack, and this is a pandemic, not a recession. Thus, death by virus continues, suicides don't usually go down : Say Pandemic - or if you wish, a Pandemic recession. Drive faster? What? People who are crazy, like the Hale Bopp Comet cult? |
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Of course, if a loving and caring all powerful god wanted to reduce the population on a planet it made, it could also just make a few more and distribute the people there. And at the same time distribute the resources more equally?
And maybe just remove diseases altogether? And put the planets closer together so the people could still communicate with each other? And PartSkeptic you never answered my question, if you know that the radiation used in 5G can effect cells, why isn't it being used to cure diseases? If you know how that works all you need to do is perform the experiments (easy, as the frequencies can be made using household appliances) and start the actual work. Nobel prize city right there. |
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Latest CT on Facebook, Boris was faking his symptoms for political gain. https://dorseteye.com/was-boris-john...tion-contrived
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Actually, it doesnt even need to come from the bats directly. If the lab in Wuhan was injecting these bat viruses into other animals to see what happens (previous reports said it was piglets they were using, but why not pangolins too?), the wet market may be a place to get those rarer animals from dealers instead of traveling hundreds of miles to catch them in the wild themselves.
Any infected researcher going to buy animals to test would carry it direct to that market. No 'market' bats are necessary. This is pure conjecture and we'll likely never know how it truly started. But there are many ways that it gets out of that lab and over to the market. *I had previously said it was 350m away but it seems the main lab was actually about 20 miles away from the market...still a very short distance compared to the whole country) |
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I should know better but still these kinds of crackpot theories every time something happens still surprise me. That people can be that idiotic.
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God is part of the illusion in the dream of the only entity that truly exists - an almost infinite intelligence with no space or time. God has to obey the rules set out. He cannot reveal himself and he cannot make life easier. The infinite intelligence tried that (the Garden of Eden) and found that to be too boring. As Buddha discovered, life is suffering - and then you die. But all is not lost - there is re-incarnation of our souls for some of us. Makes the dream much more interesting.
It is not only 5G but all EMFs. There are Israelis working on using microwave for healing. But it is basically radiation which works by altering cells. Some alterations to a poorly functioning cell may be helpful but it is best not to mess with the cells by disturbing their natural function. Targeted cancer radiation is a last resort. A big part of the problem is that the pulsations are a key factor. There are also additive effects which are very random. It is very hard to control the various factors. It is even harder (impossible I would say) to experiment on humans en masse to get results by varying all the parameters in a meaningful way. In vitro experiments are limited by duration, frequency, modulation, reflections and the type of cell. Animal experiments are limited to effects that can be measured such as cancer - not autism, brain function and dysfunction. Brain size is a factor because of the wavelengths. |
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Interesting, I've got a degree in genetics and all the problems you mentioned are also present in using UV radiation and/or radioactivity to alter cells, but those methods are functional and extremely tried and tested.
In fact I've used them routinely when I still worked in that field. Yet here you claim that for microwaves this suddenly becomes an obstacle. The real reason that it's an obstacle is of course that microwaves cannot alter cells except by cooking them if you truly overdo the energy you put in, but as others have pointed out, sunlight contains more energy than all 'electrosmog' combined. As per usual with all pseudoscience, it's proponents refuse to look at the implications of their ideas and make up things when challenged. If the idea would be right, going outside would be suicide, but then again, so would staying inside due to the radiowaves of the sun. And all those who worked on early radar would have been dead in seconds. As for your other handwave, if your god cannot save this world by interacting with it due to 'rules', then clearly it's also not talking to you, as that would break the rules, and also not responsible for this particular virus, as that would also break the rules. You can't have it both ways. |
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Eamonn Holmes now spreading 5G Coronavirus conspiracy theory on daytime TV.
If you’re wondering where your auntie is getting this nonsense from it’s not obscure internet conspiracy sites it’s mainstream daytime ITV. Holmes suggested he believes that 5G may be to blame for Coronavirus and doesn't think you should listen to the "mainstream media" & "state narrative". It's a "legitimate concern and very easy to say it's not true because it suits the state's narrative". Then Alison Hammond baked some banana bread. |
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Imagine, presenting your own show on ITV and talking about “mainstream media”.
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I've had a pretty long life already, and my suggested course of action has worked out pretty well so far - eight years and counting.
In any case one cannot simply "get some belief". Either the case made is convincing or it isn't. Yours falls a long way short of convincing. |
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Does it make any difference how it got started? It has been known that many countries have bio-labs and we all know that mistakes can be made so a pathogen is released.
It has also been known for decades that animals are reservoirs of pathogens that co-exist with their host but can mutate and transfer to humans in a deadly form. Read the book "Pandemics Progress" that discusses the various concepts. Although it is a 1996 book the concepts are well explained. The mutation could have occurred in a number of countries including the USA. I do feel that the introduction of city-wide 5G MAY have aided in the mutation. It is my experience that various pathogens transfer and our immune systems deal with them - until the mutation that escapes it. Our dogs got canine demodectic mites (mange), and I got it from them. I could see them breeding in my skin. But not for long. The human immune system kicks in and kills them. There are 26 different variants - for different species. |
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Can you show the science that shows cell phone radiation is capable of actually creating Reactive oxygen species? Because physics, chemistry and biology all show that the energy is not sufficient to do so.
And how do you know that your god actually talks to your rather than it being your own conformation bias? Because your track record for predictions is extremely poor. The whole 'I predicted a pandemic' is, as has been pointed out, en par with predicting earthquakes, tornadoes etc. |
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This one is making the rounds on some ABC affiliate stations. Has it all. Rush Limbot, Victor David Hanson, Stanford, Herd Immunity ...
https://sfist.com/2020/04/10/some-sc...ly-flu-season/ Comment section is good. |
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Do you know the Idiocracy movie ? It was so funny back then. Then it became less and less funny. And with this 5G CT it's right out unimaginative and bland. The movie is based on overstating how stupid can people be. But that's the thing - it's impossible.
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Have we got to the part where 5G is a threat to our precious fluids yet?
![]() [fun fact: Actor Sterling Hayden, who played Gen. Jack D Ripper, was OSS during WWII. Surprised he hasn't appeared in any CT's...yet] |
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Can you show actual peer reviewed papers?
So, how do you know it is not a combination of coincidence and confirmation bias? Everyone? At least everyone that has ever studied an epidemic ever? In fact, societal disruption and a lot of deaths is what MAKES a disease an epidemic. So your prediction is akin to claiming one will get wet if one steps out in the rain, true, but not anything clairvoyant. A, fake news, like Trump you do not like being confronted with your earlier recorded failures, so now you claim it's a distortion. Yes? After all, that is would would actually show you have some supernatural source of information rather than generic information that the rest of the world also possesses? See, had you in march last year for instance predicted the city of the first outbreak and what cities and countries would be hit roughly how hard and at what times you'd actually be credible. |
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