Flags Under Rivulets

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It has been a long two years for those capable of looking at statistics and performing a relative risk calculation; for those whose understanding of evolution and microbiology; goes beyond ' the polio and smallpox vaccines eradicated those two diseases.' They were very different vaccines and those viruses very different viruses.

Mass vaccination with a leaky vaccine during a pandemic selects for escape variants. In short, there is no vaccine available capable of bringing Sars Cov 2 to zero. That is not possible; and over use of the MRNA treatments quickly makes them useless. But overuse has made a lot of people very wealthy.

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It has been a long two years for those who understand you can take off a seat belt but not reverse an injection. That quality medicines take more than a few months to develop and test.

It has been a very, very long two years for those who understood even a smattering of fluid dynamics and the metric system; for those that understood that C-19 never, ever presented the threat that of other pathogens or chronic conditions; and indeed it was generally the chronic conditions in concert with denied early treatment and dangerous late-stage treatment, isolation and neglect, that were the real killing confounders.

For those of us on the left, who were continually accused of being far right, a racist, a misogynist, and anti-science for understanding and speaking out about this things ... it has been a really, really long two years.

It has been downright terrifying for those of us who have also studied how totalitarian regimes begin and how fear, scapegoating, and xenophobia have ALWAYS been used as a tool to seize power and maintain power.

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Rational Fear of Nakedness and Bright Colors

Once upon a time, the time that is now
There were beings of passion
They were simply stuffed to the gusset
With feelings capable of forming a universe
Feelings conceived by thoughts
Emotions animated with energy
Embroidered to flesh and intricate delicates
Singed, seared, and bone-serged

Alas emotion pushed at the limits of good taste
The beings feared its rapid expansion
Embellishments threatened the basted seams
Of a vulnerable and just-new, carnal-covering
Stretched the astral-gauze of cosmic couture

Like white bloomers after Labour Day
Feelings went beyond what was expected
Accepted … in polite and proper company

Link to Spoken Word
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The beings had forgotten like the universe
They were designed to expand and evolve

Like the leaves of fashion en Vogue
Shed the old; don the new
And nakedness is required
For any wardrobe change

Ever creative creatures
Whether they were aware or not
They weaved with static, stiff, and tight-fitting sheers
Creating garments restraining to the mind
Impermeable to the heart
With a little syllogistic sleight of stitch
The seam of thought and feeling was rent

Aside … between you and me
Not really, but without some fibbing
There can’t be any fable
So on with this truth-splitting myth

You thought I would rhyme; I didn't

The beings designed a grand illusion
Reasoned without any noticeable flaws
No loose threads to be pulled
No hem to be lifted or lowered
No seams to be let out, or taken in
They tailored a rationality, one size fits all

Now here were the corsets, belts, and veils
Easily, quickly, and readily donned
For the meta-physical masquerade
The carnival, the side-show with only one side
The cladding of an infinitely hued universe
In the simplicity of black and white

Never naked and never appearing gaudy
Bound up and ram-rod straight
They all lived suffering ever-after
Pretending, not noticing they were
But they consoled themselves
They were sure they looked smart

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