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2024-04-18 14:41 by Karl Denninger
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Seriously, read this and it ought to pop in and make sense.

"A number of things," she said. "We started to see patients who were experiencing very significant medical harms being rushed to the emergency room with lacerations requiring stitches. We had patients contact us who were begging to have body parts put back on within months of having surgeries."

She went on to claim, "The thing that kept happening is every time I would raise concerns and ask about the protocols and ask about the guidelines - this is just how the industry works, if a child says they're trans there's no questioning it. We just say, ‘Yep, you're trans, what would you like?’"

Why?

Simple, and for the same reason doctors and medical centers kept using Remdesivir even after the WHO ran a huge multi-national study that found it was worthless:  They got paid for it; the government paid for the drug and the hospital got to bill for it being administered, which is not cheap as it is an IV medication and they also got paid more the worse you got with no incentive to quickly and effectively treat you.

In the case of "transitioning" once you start you are a forced customer for life at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That's all they care about.

It is simply and only about the money.

You are just a mule that causes the money to flow.

Think not?

Its been known that statins cause Type II diabetes for a couple of decades.  Yet they're handed out like candy, despite the fact that diabetes kills a huge number of people but more important for the medical system it gains them hundreds of thousands of dollars firstso anything that they can find some reason to get you to do that will some time down the road lead you to that financial ruin, especially if you don't connect the two, they're all-in on because once again it is just about the money.

How about covid shots?  We knew pretty-quickly they didn't stop transmission nor did they last long in interdicting the disease either which was just perfect from the medical system's point of view in that you'd have to come back and get another one.  That it turned out to be even worse (and in a large percentage of people produces long-term and permanent -- even lethal -- damage) is icing on the cake but whether they knew that or not up front didn't matter -- all that mattered was that two would never be enough and every three or six months you'd have to come back for more.

Our system of laws is supposed to prohibit this because all such exploitation is in fact fraud.

Telling someone "you're protected" when you have every reason to believe that protection is fleeting at best and in fact doesn't help anyone else (because it doesn't interrupt transmission) is active fraud.  Every single person who did that should be rotting in prison right now but nobody is.

Likewise, everyone prescribed a statin without being told that the drugs inevitably damage insulin response and in some cases cause diabetes directly, and thus their efficacy over a long period of time is dubious at best has comitted fraud and should be rotting in prison but nobody is.

And anyone telling someone they can "transition" without fully disclosing that at best you can cosmetically look like the other sex but that it is scientifically impossible to become the other sex or gain the sexual and physical functions of the other sex is committing fraud and every one of those people should be in prison but once again -- nobody is.

Until this stops you will bother be screwed financially and in many cases shoved in the hole.

Since government has refused to jail anyone for any of those over the last 30+ years despite the black letter law being clear..... what does that leave us with for options?

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2024-04-17 07:00 by Karl Denninger
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Well then I'm a racist and I wear the badge with pride:

A Boston, Massachusetts, hospital announced Tuesday that after finding Black mothers were more likely to be reported for child abuse and neglect if a toxicology report came back positive, it would be taking steps to reevaluate the process in order to avoid perpetuating "structural racism." 

"Black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested and to be reported to child welfare systems than white pregnant people," said Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit health care system. 

Pregnant people eh?  Can you describe who might be pregnant accurately to begin with?  For instance there has never been a pregnant man nor will there ever be, so the correct description is pregnant women, not people.

Oh, and then it gets really rich:

"Substance use disorder (SUD) is a condition with significant racial and ethnic inequities, especially in the context of pregnancy, when more punitive approaches to substance use disproportionately affect Black individuals," the announcement said.

You mean because it is more-likely that black people might be using drugs?

The drugs are either there or they are not.  If they are there then they are, and the skin color of the woman (and/or child) is irrelevant.

The hospital said its new policy is in line with medical recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which opposes drug testing of individuals or infants without consent and discourages "the separation of parents from their children solely based on substance use disorder, either suspected or confirmed."

Oh really?

So a woman who deliberately exposes her pre-born infant to harmful and addictive drugs should be considered "fit" and "responsible" to be a parent with custody of said kid?  You're serious about this?

do understand and support that a woman who is pregnant and is using prescription treatment for her addiction, but is not violating that treatment protocol, inevitably will expose the infant to the treatment drug.  Provided that she does not also consume the drug(s) in question for which she sought treatment I can support leaving her and the child alone because she's recognized the problem, affirmatively taken steps to address it and the exposure in that case is inevitable and, as near as we can tell, it is not particularly dangerous.

But none of that is true if the actual drug is found in the infant or, for that matter, in the mother during the pregnancy or at the time of birth.  In that case she has willingly and intentionally exposed her child to narcotics on a direct basis and is per-se unfit to have custody of that kid.

For a hospital system to declare otherwise is the very definition of malpractice, fraud, and in addition it violates mandatory reporting statutes which should expose said hospital personnel personally to felony criminal child endangerment charges and, if said kid is seriously harmed or dies every single one of them should be indicted and tried as accessories before the fact to murder and executed for said crime.

I've long held the position that if you are female, of child-bearing age and caught with narcotics in your system your options should be (1) prison or (2) permanent sterilization.  Why?  Because while you have the right to abuse your body that does not extend to others who cannot give consent, and a girl is born with every egg she will ever have, so once those eggs are "polluted" there's nothing you can do about it.

ENOUGH of this woke bullshit.

If someone who works at such a place is run over by someone's SUV -- twice just to make sure they didn't miss -- I will cheer and laugh at their family members when the funeral is held.  I've had it with so-called "medical professionals" suborning intentional harm such as occurred with Remdesivir and now they want to do it to infants who have no capacity to consent whatsoever.

FUCK YOU Mass General and every single rat bastard who is employed there along with their entire genetic line.

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2024-04-16 07:00 by Karl Denninger
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That, bluntly, in other than very high risk people its worthless (but of course expensive):

Among the 1288 participants who received at least one dose of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir or placebo and had at least one postbaseline visit, the median time to sustained alleviation of all targeted Covid-19 signs or symptoms through day 28 was 12 days in the nirmatrelvir–ritonavir group and 13 days in the placebo group, a difference that was not significant (P=0.60) (Table 2). Similar results were observed in the high-risk subgroup (i.e., participants who had been vaccinated and had at least one risk factor for severe illness) and in the standard-risk subgroup (i.e., those who had no risk factors for severe illness and had never been vaccinated or had not been vaccinated within the previous 12 months).

It had zero impact statistically on the time to alleviation of symptoms.  The drug was bought and did not work.

However:

In a planned subgroup analysis involving high-risk participants, hospitalization or death occurred in 3 (0.9%) in the nirmaltrelvir–ritonavir group and 7 (2.2%) in the placebo group (difference, −1.3 percentage points; 95% CI, −3.3 to 0.7).

Problem: There was only one death in total so the difference here begs the obvious question on matching of morbidities and such in the trial arms.  How well was that done, given that they did find among the high-risk people a difference in hospitalization and ICU admittance?  It is not logical for these results to occur when the improvement time did not vary between the high risk and not-high-risk groups.

However, it is what it is.

But the real punchline is this:

From August 25, 2021, to July 25, 2022, a total of 1296 participants underwent randomization and were included in the full analysis population (Figure 1), and 1288 received at least one dose of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir (654 participants) or placebo (634 participants) and had at least one postbaseline visit. 

In other words before full approval by roughly a year the study outcome was known but hidden and not published.  As you probably recall you've seen "If Covid, Paxlovid" commercials yet the study says it won't help you get better faster.  Of course the government was paying for it and had been since late 2021 but again, within just a few months it was known that it didn't work and yet this was concealed.

In fact the FDA had no evidence when they made this statement:

“Today’s authorization introduces the first treatment for COVID-19 that is in the form of a pill that is taken orally — a major step forward in the fight against this global pandemic,” said Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “This authorization provides a new tool to combat COVID-19 at a crucial time in the pandemic as new variants emerge and promises to make antiviral treatment more accessible to patients who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.” 

And yet just a few months later the company had in its hands evidence that there was no statistical improvement in recovery time between using it and not, yet that study was not published, the FDA was (apparently) not notified and no statement correcting the record was made by anyone.

Now here we are in 2024 and the data comes out -- after being hidden for nearly two years.

This is the world we live in folks -- plenty of money to be made and yet what you're sold doesn't have to work and nobody has a duty to tell anyone as soon as they know, via a formal study, that it doesn't. In fact the FDA went on to give full approval nearly one year after these study results were known.

Should we expect anything different given what we know happened with Remdesivir where the government continued to pay for it and hospitals continued to push it on patients even after a huge multinational study was completed and published showing it was worthless -- and using it came with the significant risk of destroying your kidney function.

I guess not.

Oh by the way, marketing something as effective when you know that it is statistically worthless is fraud.  It is like selling "brake pads" that you know do not stop a car.  If the law meant anything the entirety of the firm's Board of Directors and all their officers would be under indictment since the money stolen from both the government and patients is in the billions.

PS: Have you noticed anything interesting?  When did "new variants" stop showing up and getting all manner of press?

WHEN PEOPLE STOPPED TAKING MORE SHOTS.

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2024-04-14 07:41 by Karl Denninger
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Here 'ya go!

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2024-04-13 08:04 by Karl Denninger
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You can take all your "grieving" and shove it straight up your own ass.

Why?

Because the people bleating and "grieving" as government officials are all responsible, personally responsible, for felons like this being on the street after being caught committing crimes involving violence and other serious violations of the law and they are then released without bond and without any sort of monitoring.

Further, we keep seeing their "mothers" and others show up whining about "he diddunuttin" when the facts are that in ChiCONGO said person fired 11 rounds at someone without provocation and in MemCONGO the shooter opened fire without provocation as well.  Yes, said targeted person in both cases happened to be a cop but that's irrelevant; if you fire a weapon unprovoked at someone you deserve it if you get turned into a decent rendition of hamburger.  I have zero empathy if that is the result because it should be the result each and every time.

If it was perhaps you'd think about it before you drew that gun, eh?  I mean let's be real -- even an ape can figure that one out and if he can't, well, then his being dead is better than being alive for everyone else.

In the case in Memphis the shooter was recently arrested in a stolen vehicle with a fully-automatic weapon and was charged with possession of said stolen vehicle and said automatic weapon.  So why the hell was he, having been caught red-handed, on the streets?

I remind you that automatic weapons, otherwise known as machine guns, are illegal to possess unless you have a BATFE Form for each of them and in addition using an unregistered device to make a firearm a machine gun can't be registered anyway.  That crime carries a penalty of ten years in the slammer at the federal level all by itself, never mind being a state firearm offense along with the grand theft auto charge -- both STATE felonies.

So this clown was out on the streets (guess his race -- oh you don't have to, just have a look) as he was released without bond and apparently without any actual monitoring either despite being caught in a stolen car and having an extremely-illegal machinegun.  Oh, and it gets better -- the case is reported to have been accepted for federal prosecution (on the machine gun I presume) yet a County Judicial Commissioner (who they conveniently don't name -- gee, I wonder why) let him out on his own recognizance and without any proactive and effective monitoring.

How do we know this?

The vehicle the suspect was in when the shooting took place was also stolen and he also obviously (and very illegally, as he was now charged with a felony) obtained another gun so that Shelby County jackass who issued the ROR release didn't deter anything at all.

In ChiCONGO the person who opened fire was just released on another felony charge as well and thus was a prohibited person as he was under indictment for a felony and therefore could not legally possess a gun.  Once again he was wandering the streets which means he was let out without any enforced conditions on where he went or what he did -- if said "conditions" were allegedly imposed nobody gave a shit when he wasn't adhering to said constraints and they did not immediately throw him in jail for driving around in his vehicle.

We are well beyond the point where either (1) we have to start cheering when public officials (including but not limited to cops) get capped by these thugs who they all let out after being caught violating the law, with no consequence being paid by said thugs for their actions or (2) we have to start taking out the trash ourselves and impose what amounts to a hard separation between the peaceable citizens and the assholes, including in the second group all of the so-called government officials who think that skin color is a reason for you to be able to steal cars, convert firearms to machine guns and not immediately wind up either in jail or with sufficient bond and monitoring pending trial so you can't steal any more cars or shoot at people.

If the Executive branch of the State will not do its job when their inaction is the direct reason a government employee gets shot I am not sorry, I am not mourning, I am not anything of the sort.  I am instead offering a toast of some FINE single-malt Scotch and a loud "hizzah!" because that VERY SAME GOVERNMENT sat on its ass, let a violent asshole out on the streets when they had every ability to keep him in jail or under effective supervision pending trial AND THUS THE DEAD PERSON, WHO IS PART OF THE VERY SAME GOVERNMENT THAT PUT THE PUBLIC AT DEMONSTRATED EXTREME AND REALIZED RISK DESERVED WHAT THEY GOT.

BETTER THAT SAID PERSON BE THE ONE DEAD THAN AN INNOCENT CIVILIAN WHO HAD NO ABILITY TO DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT THIS SINCE CIVILIANS CANNOT CHARGE AND PROSECUTE, AND IN FACT THE PEACEFUL CIVILIANS IN THE AREA RELIED ON ALL THOSE OTHER ASSHOLES IN THE GOVERNMENT TO DO THEIR JOBS WHICH THEY WILLINGLY AND INTENTIONALY REFUSED BECAUSE SAID ACCUSED WAS A "DINDUNUTTIN BOOOOOY."

Don't give me any bullshit, Governor Lee, about how this was a "local" or "isolated" failure.  You're lying, that is a SIN so your professed faith is ALSO false and here's proof from the Tennessee STATE Statute books:

A person commits an offense who intentionally or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs or sells:

    • An explosive or an explosive weapon;
    • A device principally designed, made or adapted for delivering or shooting an explosive weapon;
    • A machine gun;
    • A short-barrel rifle or shotgun;
    • Hoax device;

    • Knuckles; or

    • Any other implement for infliction of serious bodily injury or death that has no common lawful purpose.

Nevermind that the stolen vehicle is a state felony as well.  Assuming the vehicle was worth at least $10,000 (but less than $60,000) it was a Class C felony which carries a sentence of not less than three nor more than fifteen years in the state slammer.

So spare me any whining about Memphis.  The State had every right and in fact duty to bring State felony charges and take said person into custody on same if the City of Memphis refused to do so and if the STATE had done so he would have been in jail and unable to commit this crime.  Memphis has become a shithole as a direct result of this crap and I want to know how many cops will remain on the force and be target practice for assholes if the county and State will not put a stop to this shit right here, right now, period.

I'm done with all the whining, crying and praying by cops and other so-called "do-gooders", especially the black poverty pimps and their enablers, when this sort of crap happens.

I no longer care when cops get whacked by these thugs nor will I care if any member of the State or Local Government, or any of their family members, get whacked in each and every instance where the offender was previously caught doing something carrying felony penalties and was released pending trial with no monitoring or enforcement of same or, even worse, if they were released with no charges and trial at all!

In both these cases -- and many more -- that is exactly what happened and these same thugs attack, steal from, maim and murder innocent citizens who have no actual power to indict, prosecute or imprison.  That is a power our society has delegated to the Executive and if they refuse to perform their duties under said laws then it is time for all citizens to cheer when they are the ones who pay for that refusal personally, up to and including paying with their lives.

In fact I propose that Friday night become toast a dead government official night until and unless all this bullshit DEI/Racebaiting bullshit STOPS with 100% finality, every time, and anyone who gets caught stealing cars or with an illegal machine gun gets to sit in jail or under effective 24x7 electronic supervision with a nice, high bail to be forfeited if they try to cheat until their trial occurs and if found guilty they do hard time in prison every single time as well.

know that some counties in this state actually force accountability and monitoring with ankle monitors, cash bonds and similar for far lesser offenses than stealing cars and possessing illegal machine guns.  Shelby County has no excuse for their outrageous refusal to either lock this jackass up or maintain effective knowledge and control of what he was doing post his original arrest and neither does TBI, the State Executive generally and the State Attorney General.

Felony laws related to violent criminal acts just like anti-trust laws are not suggestions but it appears that in basically every jurisdiction, including "Red, Conservative" states such as mine, the violent felony criminal code is in fact a set of suggestions if and only if the offender is black, brown, or some form of illegal immigrant.  IF you are in one of those "protected classes" you can, by this example, literally steal cars and convert weapons to machine guns and nobody will lock you up pending trial nor require any cash bond for either even when you are caught red-handed in the act.

It is for that reason and that reason ONLY that these cops got shot.

FUCK YOU Governor Lee, and all of those in the State and Memphis city prosecutorial and judicial apparatus. YOU DID THIS.

And DOUBLE FUCK YOU to our Legislature, including specifically Speaker Sexton who of course was bleating all over Twitter on this event, a legislature that continues to fund and rubber stamp Executive agencies, including the State Police, State AG and the entire State prosecutorial apparatus who refuse to do their goddamn jobs when city and other local officials will not.  The power of the purse rests exclusively in the Legislature and thus continued funding of demonstrably corrupt entities who refuse to discharge their duties makes our Legislators all direct enablers of these felons.

I reminder Speaker Sexton that Tennessee has an "ouster" law that bears on this situation as well -- it permits an action to remove an official who has violated or corrupted their oath of office, including by willingly neglecting to perform the duties of said office.  When are we going to see that be filed and executed demanding the AG act against the STATE officers, Prosecutors and other officials who refused to step in and arrest this asshole when Memphis did not, along with the Memphis officials as well Mr. Speaker?

Those of us who care about the law and a peaceable society are tired of the excuses made for letting violent, known felons walk away from offenses without detention, monitoring or any other sort of enforced bail condition who then go on to commit further offenses of the same seriousness or worse than what prompted the original arrest.  This deliberate malfeasance is directly responsible for serious property and personal crime across this and every other state where it occurs and now it has directly resulted in both maiming and death.

Fix it right now or may you all be damned.

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