Tina (a lady with There Is No Alternative, as you well know) is still belly dancing on the papagayo beach and the papagayos are frenzy running after her, parroting the moves of the Parrot Oligarchy. IT is called “freedom” and they think they got it in a form of a chat with the beer or the aperitif.
As you all know, the Debt driven economy model of the charlatan economy has momentarily won the first round of Covid. The window of change was too big for the parrots to use it. The cage is closing back and the parrots are imitating the masters voice…
The Covid economy model, so well depicted here in this blog, was and is based on , lets say three pillars, since the perverted monkey can maximum depict the world in dualist terms and at the best as a triadic pyramid.
The fight against covid was based on how big is the hospital capacity, how to avoid the overflow of dead bodies out of it, on the streets, and a yoyo game around that number. The second pillar is what WD will expand in short. The third pillar was and is a vaccine, which prevented the disruption of TINA dance and kept things in the current neoliberal frame.
But lets see the second pillar, called “Freedom”.
The brain dead west populace did not even notice that the model of lockdowns was based on a simple dualistic outlook of the neoliberal model. The productive capacity was divided in roughly two sides.
One for necessary work which kept the society going on and other for leisure- free time after the work.SO, to keep on keeping on, the all vital productive capacity including all production, not only strictly necessary, was kept open and working , while the free time after work capacities closed.
That was made to keep the infection down. The infection at the productive capacity workplace was running, people got infected there, but the free time- beer, alcohol, coffee restaurant , dining leisure, travel, art, theater, music productive sector was closed.It was a way to halve the infection probability, adding on top the curfew.
The bureaucratic state machine was running, the media spin too, since this part of the society is vital for the Oligarchy rule. They got even high incentives because of the covid, pay rises in order to work from home, which, in many places signified doing nothing and get paid a lot, even more than usual. Nice touch of keeping order..
The free time industry stopped and the brain dead populace , until today, 25 may, the day when all Galactic Travelers normally walk around with the towel and do not panic, in memory of Douglas Adams hitchiking through the Galaxy, repeat, the brain dead west east south and north populace took this deprivation of music, beer, dancing brotheling, as an attack to their “freedom”. The only freedom we have, to go out after work and have some fun, meet people, or have sex with strangers.
The ruling Oligarchy decided, that if they wanted the business as usual, like the Germans madly working for export in the full pandemic swing ,they , to keep the infection curve in control (with the hospitals as a backup) , they had to block all after work fun left for the populace.
So, the ruling class decided, in order to keep going as usual, to close all which the Olifgarchy took and regarded as not necessary. No beer music, travel, art, theatre. How people spent their free time after the work was not necessary anyway, for the overall business. So, they have sacrificed part of the productive- leisure- sector deemed unnecessary.
The good news for the Oligarchy was, that the people employed-mostly self employed in this sector did not protest at all, or very shyly,since they were given less than peanuts for being closed over a year. They could have even sued the ruling class for damages, since the lockdown was not their direct fault.
The other fun was that mega supermarkets were open and small shops were closed. The corporate interests were protected. But this findings did not find its way in the populace heads. They even vote the right wingers who promote the corporate business while even do not notice it.
That was the blunt, idiotic , but very cunning way of keeping the infection numbers low and having still the control of the core issues of the neoliberal system..
The Plan was never meant to eradicate the Covid. The Plan for eradicating Covid is called Zero Covid, but that was never even shyly discussed.Not in the EU, or the US.
The Populace understood this as an attack to their “FREEDOM”. They did not protest of not being given a dime, a cent, for this mockdown.
Like parrots, they understood that their “freedom” was taken.They were “free” to work, but not free to party.Party EQUALS ”freedom”
The right wingers , the right wing parties even won and and are going to win elections on behalf of this freedom. Arbeit Macht Frei, plus a beer…
AS you have noticed, this “freedom fight” was fought over and for the the glass of beer, coffee, aperitif. Not over art, theatre, music, opera. Maybe some mega concerts were in play. Not over books, media, freedom of speech, assembly, etc…
Not over the debt free money, the Universal basic income or the Job Guarantee.
And then, vaccine made a pause in this “freedom” game of ping pong for the dummies.
So, Witchdoctor and Witch lady got vaccinated, with this experimental, emergency use stuff with no chance of suing them if anything goes wrong.They , since Slovenia was doing it nicely chaotically , which meant that one day a friend called and said, look, they are giving the mRNA Pfizer vaccine and they have not enough people, come.
It was seven in the afternoon, the rain was pouring, WD was having his usual headache, as always when the atmospheric pressure drops.
The hospital staff was fantastic, and all was perfect.
Even the WD head ache stopped after the shot… haha.
Next two days one felt as being driven over with a huge cylinder, but, since WD and WL were used taking homeopathic boosters for the immune system, it was an expected reaction, only much stronger feeling, somewhat down and stoned.
AS you know, Witchdoctor is a follower, scientifically like his master Paul Feyerabend, that whatever works.Shamans are fine, too. Together with the antibiotic, even better.
So, all posts about the vaccine in this blog are true and WD is not inching anywhere.
Then the second day, Witchlady, around midnight, got the nose bleed. It was not a nose bleed, it was turning the tap .Blood was pouring and very slowly diminishing and it stopped only after two hours. First time in her life, she had it never before.
The conversation that WD held with the emergency was “exhilarating”.
They asked him, when he described the facts and the blood tap turned on, if he has a driving license and if he ever made, with his driving license, a first aid course? He answered, what has this to do with the possible side effects of the MRNA vaccine which Witchlady is having? The emergency answer was, press the nose with two fingers and keep the head down.But it is like a tap, should he bring WL to the emergency? They said they come only when life is in danger.WD asked, what, this is not the case, this could even be a start of hemorrhage, some more extended bleeding? They said they are not coming. WD phoned the emergency doctor. He described the facts and asked what to do. The doctor said “I do not know”…..
Fortunately, after, the bleeding stopped.
WD found out that this happens in 0,3% of the cases, with astra even more….
We reported this to our doctor, he was not very keen of filling the form, he eventually wrote back he did it,,, so WD found a Pfizer site and filled a lot of forms. Just in case, for loving memory.. Many do not report, they are more of freedom fighters type.
The second shot was some days ago. The feeling of being run over by a huge cylinder was stronger, WD was feeling numb in the legs, but it passed. He read Abir Mukherjee 2nd book, laying on the rug.
WL was fine, we took only cold shower and a bottle and half of beer each after the shot. Her nose was itching, but, hands away.
As you know, you should drink liquids, mom said always.After, next days, some antioxidant red wine is good. And a strong lemon juice, from our lemon tree.Clots or nose bleed choice? Nose bleed, definitely.
Unfortunately no one gained a faculty of night vision and fortunately, until now, there was no other type of gain of function.
They have not even vaccinated more than 25% completely and they talk of a booster.
Already WD thinks: it looks like 50% will not go for this stuff. WD is in fact doing them a favor being vaccinated.The sods.They do not care, good.They want “freedom” to party.
Witchdoctor needs a certified pass to run, away.Freedom to wander around, away from the maddening crowd..
Now, WD,whatever works, probably got his T cells to have some memory of the vaccine and his covid which he had in 2019, before anybody talked about it.
Now this T cell memory, sounds like memory of the water. Some in some other part of the medicine claim that water has memory. If you hike, drink from the springs, and after from the taps or from the plastic bottle, you can feel the difference of live and de
ad water.
Whatever works, but the hard science should know they are definitely conceptually on the same train with the water memory fans.
Or any other type of the imprinting practices.
Whatever works, T cell memory is fine by Witchdoctor. And yes, he made the first aid course some decades ago….
The booster,it will wait. Keeping the T cell memory is better.