My Random Quick Takes #3

WINNING FRIENDS AND INFLUENCING PEOPLE!!!

And then, MAKE NUREMBERG GREAT AGAIN?

Of Course!

Here’s an interview quite well worth the hour. It’s between James Delingpole, a brit, with Attorney Reiner Fuellmich, a German-American licensed to practice in both California and Germany. I think the strategy of the legal team and its specific target (a fraudulent PCR test) is spot on. Have a watch, because it’s not pie-in-the-sky stuff.


Homemade mac & cheese along with housemade Slovenian smoked sausages from a local French bakery-cafe-deli
I’m ashamed to say this was the first time I made mac & cheese not from a box, like Kraft or Annie’s. Turned out great, even eyeballing it as I did. Smashed & chopped clove of garlic, butter, flour for roux, milk, cheese. Undercook the pasta 1-minute, drain, introduce into the sauce. Season with salt to taste, then plenty of black and cayenne pepper.

To the Expats in Thailand group on Facebook.

All of the programs have been utter Lead Balloons so far. Yes, some few have taken advantage of quarantine to get to Thailand. Few are actual tourists in the tourist sense. They are typically those who already have an established residence here and are coming back home, or, they are being reunited with friends and family, etc.

I think I heard a figure that in normal times at peak, 800 tourists are arriving into Thailand per hour.

Everyone has their own sense of what they’ll put up with, but I know that if I was just going to set off for a 2-week to 1-month standard vacation of sun, fun, food, drinks, excursions, Thailand would be near the very last place on my list. I don’t think tourists are stupid enough to think this is going to be the Thailand they remember, their friends tell them about, or they’ve dreamt about.

It’s particularly pernicious BECAUSE Thailand is normally such a prime destination. I caught the bug in 1986 my first visit. There’s no vaccine, no cure. That makes it a tough sell, now, because what you are going to find isn’t Thailand anymore, not even a million miles close. Everyone in masks is probably the biggest turd in the punchbowl. A constant reminder that the place kinda sucks, now, and that hurts more because you have a sense of how much is lost, ruined, and destroyed.

Here is WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN, all the NEW PROGRAMS!!! notwithstanding. Tourist dollars are going to go to nice places where there are no hassles. Simple human behavior.

It is rather presumptuous and hubristic if you think about it. Thailand believing their shit is so hot that people will pay money to jump through hoops, be embarrassed and humiliated by being constantly reminded to have their temperature taken, put on that mask, and make sure it’s adjusted properly.

No thanks. It thrills my soul to think off all those tourist dollars going elsewhere, in a tough love sort of way. Lessons need to be learned at this point. ZERO restrictions of ANY kind, or no sale, no deal. Back to the way it was 100% or GFY.


I was wrong about the 800 per hour, above.

“far below 800 tourist per hour far far below that” — a commenter over in the Phuket Expats group.

I was content to just go with what I’d heard, so when challenged, I checked. In 2019, the last year of pre-Covid tourism, just shy of 40 million tourists arrived, 39.85 mil by my calculations.

That works out to 4,550 arrivals per hour 24/7/365. Think of the enormity of that. How much does the average tourist spend, multiply that by 4,550 and that is the revenue loss PER HOUR, 24/7/365. Well, you can look that up too, $62.3 billion US in 2019. And they think making “sandboxes” of places is going to put a dent in that.

And that tourist revenue loss is $73 million per hour, 24/7/365, now close to $100 billion total since the beginning of THE MOST POPULAR DISEASE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!!! began.



How can this possibly be? Could it be about age and general health?

It’s still just 920 total deaths in the near-18-months, amongst a population of 70 million (about same as UK) and an average 1,500 all-cause deaths daily, but the strange association for me is that the vaccinations began the slow rollout in early March, ramping up through April and May, to the present, 3.2 million doses administered and counting.

Causal? Who knows? But it’s certainly an association. Does it warrant close scrutiny and investigation, or, just shut up and get your vaxx or gene therapy shot?


And email out to a friend:

Yep, I was just at Islander a couple days ago and Mark, the Brit expat owner, was saying the same thing.

“People will get it not because they need it (they don’t), but to travel.”

As per plan.

My guess is that once they estimate that they have jabbed enough, probably 60-70% range, they will declare victory, herd immunity, and stop the nonsense.

I now think the most plausible explanation for all that’s going on is that EVERYONE globally, except for a few US States, is 100% in ass-covering mode because they understand well that this is a massive fuck up.

You will begin to see elites (like Gates and Fauci) increasingly thrown under the bus so that the others STFU and let these things unwind per narrative necessity. This is why the ramp-up for the climate crisis, because there always has to be a crisis on the horizon.

I could be wrong.


Sweden, completely right and correct since virtually day one, keeps telling the rest of the world to Shut. The. Fuck. Up. For good reason.

The Swedish model in retrospect

The above chart shows that after more than a year into the pandemic, cumulative confirmed covid mortality in Sweden – without lockdown, mask mandate, and primary school closures – is significantly lower than the average in both the EU and the US. Within the US, the same applies to Florida, especially if adjusted for the mean age of the population. Indeed, a recent cross-country analysis found that neither lockdowns nor PCR testing rates had an impact on covid mortality.

The above chart alone basically invalidates the entire high-cost, low-benefit  ‘Western approach’ to the coronavirus pandemic. For this very reason, those who have promoted this unscientific approach cannot show the big-picture mortality data. Instead, they compare Sweden only to its two neighbors, Norway and Finland, which have the lowest covid mortality among all Western non-island countries.

For this misdirection to work, one must conceal the fact that Norway and Finland have had even softer measures than Sweden during most of the pandemic, and one must also conceal the true reason behind the outlier status of Norway and Finland: early border controls, opposed by the WHO and most Western ‘health experts’, for political reasons, until it was too late.

The fact that there are hardly any beneficial intermediate stages between the rather relaxed Swedish model and the extreme (but apparently effective) Chinese model very likely has to do with the dominant mode of transmission of Sars-CoV-2: aerosols (see next section).


As a final note for item 12 of this daily dozen, here’s a modest suggestion as to how to frame your personal medical decision to vaxx or not to vaxx—or get a gene modification therapy.

  1. None of the handful of “vaccines” have completed clinical trials or gone through the rigorous process of approval by the standard means. I’ve heard estimates that this will take until 2023; however, we are going through a global clinical trial of sorts now, aren’t we?
  2. Currently, all the vaccines are under an Emergency Use Authorization.

So, the simple question to ask yourself and to consider for your families is, is this an emergency for us on the whole, or any individuals in the family? There is a risk to any sort of intervention. Typically, you weigh those risks with the potential for protection or alleviation of existing health problems, against the risk of no treatment. The risks of these vaxx or experimental gene therapies is pretty clear; meaning, they exist. They just do, and denial of that is utter evil bullshit.

Be so guided. It should be your decision and yours alone, based on your own assessment, and not desires for peer approval, cookies, beers, lotteries, or restoring your freedom to live your human life as you see fit.


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