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July 15, 2022 (updated 6:15 p.m. Pacific)
This blogger stopped paying attention to the “COVID-19 variant” propaganda since all of us were supposed to die from the extinction-level Omicron variant. That is, all of us that were left from the super-deadly Delta variant were supposed to be finished off by Omicron.
Critical thinkers and even individuals with a smidgen of common sense understand that all so-called COVID-19 variants are umbrella terms for “vaccine” adverse reactions. But there are still millions of lambs who love this show more than The Sopranos and American Idol. So the CDC, FDA and mainstream media renewed COVID-19 for a fourth season (after Alpha, Delta and Omicron) of fear, validation and scintillating story lines that will have vaxx zealots wearing actual hazmat suits while receiving their fifth and sixth injections in the coming months.
The BA.2.75 COVID-19 variant, aka “Centaurus,” is now present in seven countries, including the U.S., according to The Guardian. Global mainstream media are calling Centaurus “the most contagious version yet.” But “experts” say that as long as you wear masks and get your fourth booster, then you can proudly repeat the official Cult of COVID-19 slogan, “at least I’m vaccinated or it would have been worse.”
This new super-deadly variant was released just in time for the FDA’s announcement on Novavax. The agency authorized the insect virus vector injections for emergency use in the United States on July 13.
RELATED: Three Novavax adverse reaction cases in Australia have similarities, as propaganda centers around convincing “anti-vaxxers” that Novavax is different from the others (March 9, 2022)
Two days earlier, the Biden Administration purchased 3.2 million doses of the shots to distribute among the states. Novavax requires two doses, like Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. It’s unclear if Novavax will be authorized as a booster shot for prior mRNA and viral vector DNA recipients. Novavax is also marketed as the preferred injection for the “vaccine hesitant.” We fully expect a new spectrum of adverse reactions from Novavax recipients, perhaps even some we haven’t even seen yet from the previous injections.
And speaking of promoting and encouraging “vaccines,” Donald Trump is at it again. The former President and potential 2024 Presidential candidate held a “Save America” rally in Anchorage, Alaska on July 9 (with tickets costing upwards of $250). Trump once again gloated about Operation Warp Speed and said he “needs to have a talk” with his non-vaccinated fans.
RELATED: 5 times Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to receive mRNA or viral vector DNA injections since leaving the White House (November 30, 2021)
This website is mostly about sudden and unexpected deaths during The Great Reset and global vaccine genocide. Thus we cannot mention Donald Trump without mentioning the “sudden and unexpected” death of his first wife, Ivana Trump, yesterday.
What we know for certain is that Ms. Trump, 73, was found dead in her home at the bottom of a staircase. She reportedly had a heart attack. The foregoing details are perfectly consistent with many other sudden and unexpected post-injection deaths during The Great Reset. It’s completely plausible that Ms. Trump is yet another victim. But the hashtag #Epsteined trended on Twitter for a few hours yesterday because conspiracy theorists suspect foul play.
Update 6:15 p.m. Pacific: Ivana Trump died from “blunt impact trauma” in an “accident.”
Donald, Don. Jr., and Ivanka Trump were all scheduled to testify in the New York civil investigation into the Trump Organization today. Further, since Donald Trump allegedly raped and ripped hair out of Ivana’s scalp in the process once upon a time, it’s not out of the question that Trump would have Ivana killed to get out of testifying in New York, according to said conspiracy theories. For the record, the Trump’s depositions today were in fact postponed. Make of all that what you will.
We previously estimated that 50 million excess deaths have already happened globally in the first half of 2022. The second half of the year will see an estimated 150 million excess deaths before the numbers accelerate into the billions in 2023. Most of these deaths won’t be news stories. They will be announced via nameless, faceless quips in tweets, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram posts, like the following.
But we’re going to continue humanizing as many of these souls as possible, despite a lot of them voluntarily and enthusiastically choosing this path for material reasons.
Brianna London: 29-year-old Pennsylvania entrepreneur “dies suddenly” on vacation in Dominican Republic
Ms. Brianna Tiffany London was originally from Pennsylvania, but lived in Puerto Rico. She had her own clothing and accessory line. Ms. London was vacationing in the Dominican Republic in early May. She “died suddenly” while there. Ms. London is survived by her husband.
Nicholas Cardone: 32-year-old Maine cook “dies unexpectedly” after massive heart attack
Mr. Nicholas Louis Cardone was the catering supervisor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He worked there for 11 years before recently leaving the position to work at his future father-in-law’s building firm. Mr. Cardone and his fiancée’s wedding date was June 18.
Mr. Cardone suffered a sudden, acute aortic dissection on June 4. That means one or more heart valves ripped apart from the inside. Mr. Cardone was rushed to Mid Coast Hospital, but pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
Bowdoin College has had a vaccine coercion policy in place since April 2021, and a full mandate since August 24, 2021.
Kate Thornton: 42-year-old British woman dies after sudden heart attack while on vacation
Mrs. Kate Thornton had just landed her dream job at Minitab. She and her husband celebrated by traveling to Turkey. The Newton-le-Willows couple arrived on June 25 and thoroughly enjoyed the first two days of the trip. The foregoing photo was taken in Turkey during those days.
Sometime after midnight on June 28, Mrs. Thornton suddenly suffered a heart attack and died almost immediately. Doctors said the heart attack was likely caused by a pulmonary embolism (blood clot). Mr. Thornton, who’s already survived some tough times in his life, now has to figure out how to get his wife’s body back to the U.K. from Turkey. A GoFundMe page is helping with that.
Minitab has offices in the U.S., U.K., and four other countries. A job application we found online for Minitab says the company requires all new employees to be fully vaccinated.
Ian Morris: 54-year-old British novelist and councilman dies after “short illness”
Mr. Ian Morris was the Northamptonshire County “Chair of COVID-19 Oversight and Development.” He’s held that position since May 2020, according to his LinkedIn page. But the Northampton Chronicle reported that Mr. Morris left politics at the end of 2021 to write novels.
Needless to say, Mr. Morris was a die-hard vaxx zealot.
Mr. Morris received his Pfizer mRNA booster shot on December 7.
He came down with a “short illness” and died on June 21.
Kaylen Gehrke: 24-year-old Texas archeologist “dies suddenly” on first day at new job.
Ms. Kaylen Eileen Gehrke graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in forensic anthropology in 2019. She was originally from Colorado, but recently moved to Longview, Texas. Ms. Gehrke was hired by Cultural Resource Analysts and started the job on Monday, July 11.
She and her team were at Kisatchie National Forest in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana that day conducting archeological surveys. Ms. Gehrke suddenly “collapsed from heat stroke.” Her co-workers performed CPR until paramedics arrived. But Ms. Gehrke was pronounced dead at the scene. #ABV.
Olivia Quan: 25-year-old Canadian sound engineer dies suddenly after ruptured brain aneurysm
Ms. Olivia Sonia Quan was a well-known and respected sound engineer for Monarch Studios in Vancouver. She’d worked for the company since 2016. Ms. Quan reportedly played major roles in three projects that were nominated for Juno Awards this year.
She was working from home on July 1. Ms. Quan dropped dead instantly on her bed at some point that day. Monarch Studios said she “died from natural causes, a brain bleed.”
Of course there is nothing natural about a brain bleed. Whenever we’ve seen those words here on The COVID Blog™, it means post-injection ruptured brain aneurysm most of the time, and hemorrhagic stroke the remainder of the time.
Dan Ciornei: 55-year-old Romanian bus driver drops dead after dancing at a wedding
Mr. Dan Ciornei was a bus driver for what appears to be an elementary school called Clasa Fluturasilor in Tifesti, Romania. He is also the father of Andrei Ciornei, who plays soccer for FC Panciu of the 4th Vrancea League (thus three steps below the main team).
Mr. Ciornei attended his nephew’s wedding on July 9. He was enjoying himself, dancing among the crowd. When the song ended, Mr. Ciornei suddenly “got sick and ran out of breath.” He sat down in a chair before losing consciousness. Some of the wedding attendees attempted CPR. But Mr. Ciornei was pronounced dead minutes after paramedics arrived. His school posted a heartfelt message on Facebook the following day.
One Romanian website, citing an unnamed family member, reported that Mr. Ciornei “was double vaccinated.”
Abbi MacGregor: 17-year-old Illinois high school student dies from “sudden rare brain tumor”
Abbigail Nadine MacGregor was an incoming senior at Harlem High School in Loves Park, Illinois. She was a three-sport athlete, top-tier student, and worked a part-time job. Abbi hoped to run track and cross country in college to pay for her nursing education.
She started complaining about blurry vision and dizziness late last month. Abbi collapsed in the shower on June 28, and was rushed to the hospital. Doctors informed the family that Abbi had a “large mass” on her brain. Though doctors found the tumor to be benign, the July 1 surgery to remove it took well over 14 hours and was followed by several complications. A second surgery was needed to alleviate pressure in her skull on July 3. Abbi passed away on July 6.
A GoFundMe page is collecting funds in her memory.
Awysum Harris: 20-year-old Alabama State University sophomore found dead in his dorm room
Mr. Awysum Harris was a 20-year-old sophomore at Alabama State University. He was also a linebacker for the school’s football team. Mr. Harris was originally from Decatur, Georgia.
He was found dead in his dorm room on July 3. School President Quinton Ross said Mr. Harris died of “natural causes.” #ABV. Alabama State University had a vaccine coercion policy versus an actual mandate.
Biel Tan: 12-year-old Filipino boy dead six months after second Pfizer injection
Biel Elioenai C. Tan received his first Pfizer mRNA injection on January 5, according to a now-deleted vaccine card posted on Facebook by his mother. He received the second injection three weeks later, January 22.
Biel passed away on June 20, 2022.
There are several accounts as to what happened from people who appear to be Biel’s family. They say he was diagnosed with leukemia and died three days later. But the Filipino language does not translate smoothly to English, and it’s difficult to clarify. Thus, draw your own conclusions.
Dead even if you don’t die immediately
We’ve referenced the now-scrubbed CDC novel “Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic” several times. The powers-that-be destroyed the Georgia Guidestone because (among other things) it told truth about their 90% population reduction goals. The CDC zombie novel also tells truth. It literally says, “Readers follow Todd, Julie, and their dog Max as a strange new disease begins spreading, turning ordinary people into zombies.” That’s exactly what’s happening now. The foregoing page was scrubbed from the CDC website sometime in late 2020. But erasing the blueprints didn’t erase the billions of real-life zombies still walking around.
The combined irony and psychosis in these mainstream media headlines demonstrate the state of humanity in 2022.
All of the women interviewed for this article use “they/them pronouns” and said sterilization is a way they can still have control of their bodies despite the recent Supreme Court abortion ruling. Self-control and monogamy are not options at all with these types. Further, they are all liberals trained to hate men, can’t define what a woman is, all likely vaxxed and boosted, thus all likely sterile anyway. You literally must divest of all reality and common sense to try and understand the mindsets of this new majority race of genetically-modified human beings.
This blogger has been trying to save people from their own stupidity, acquiescence and sycophantic obedience since the very beginning of this vaccine genocide. Now it’s too late for most of them. All the vaxxed can do now is encourage others to follow the same death path for validation, and hate those who tried to warn them.
RELATED: Brandy Zadrozny: case study on NBC News vaxx zealot “Tiffany Dover reporter” and how mainstream media curate and create these on-air performers (May 10, 2022)
Most vaxxed people are suffering in silence. They don’t talk about their injuries for fear of backlash. They will only talk about said injuries when they become readily visible and apparent. But even then, they will blame “long-COVID,” heat, or just #ABV.
Smile at a stranger today if you can. That person may not wake up from their sleep tonight – and deep down, they know it. At least they will have one last positive memory to go along with their eternal regret related to the injections.
Stay vigilant, protect your friends and loved ones, and have a great weekend.
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I have no problem with these young ladies sterilizing themselves. Removing that factor from the gene pool will increase the overall IQ by removing mutant genes. Go for it girls, do humanity a favor.
“Removing that factor from the gene pool will increase the overall IQ by removing mutant genes.”
It’s not about IQ; if anything, a higher IQ is a predictor of compliance with the status quo. The dumbest people I’ve met in life have high intelligence – something else is going on.
Thank you. This obsession with so called high IQ people is what brought us here. These high iq people luck common sense and they sound really stupid. It makes me believe our world has been upside down for a really long time. Stupid people get rewarded a d are told that they have high iq
Early on in the injection mania, I asked a doctor that I went to elementary school with whether the shots were safe for a woman trying to get pregnant. This guy had a crush on me back then. I thought, this will be a good test of what a doctor is. If he is a good human, he will tell me what his gut says and protect me. He will err on the side of caution. (I also included that I lived in an area with very little Covid and I was healthy and fit).
Instead, he said, “I’m not aware of any contraindications.”
It was then I knew he was a piece of s#it and that doctors were much more useless than I had even imagined.
I was very lucky to have this interaction. It cemented my belief that medicine had been compromised.
i’ve never once considered getting jabbed, but i had a similar interaction last summer with a pharmacist who’s a client of my husband’s auto repair shop; i actually followed him from pharmacy-to-pharmacy twice years ago (he began using my husband during that time as a result of us talking while he rang up my meds one day)- that’s how honest he was back then with me, and i respected that. well no more! i asked him how his pharmacy was handling the HCQ and ivermectin fiasco, he spewed the line that they weren’t useful against *covid*, and i said, but they both interfere with the spike protein which is the problem, as no *covid* has ever been isolated! he just looked at me blankly. when i saw him a couple of months ago, i didn’t recognize him as he’d grown his hair out (i’ve had several concussions due falls from a connective tissue disorder, and can’t always recognize folks i’ve known for years), and went off on the shots and every damn thing else going on as they try and exterminate us. i mentioned all the young healthy people dropping dead suddenly, and he was in complete agreement! i don’t know if he realized that i didn’t know who tf he was (i knew i *knew* him from somewhere but couldn’t place it), and i only realized once he left and i asked my husband who that was. obviously things have changed since i saw him last year. as nice a guy as he is, he’s complicit in mass extermination, and i’ve got no use for him.
There’s an interesting concept called the “midwit” that has been explained by Dr. Edward Dutton. Apparently, around an IQ of 120 or so, people are also most socially aware (i.e., affected by groupfeels) and most willing to rationalize what they know to fit the group’s dominant ideology.
Apparently I know many “midwits”.
Hi IQ combined with a strong sense of individuality is true intelligence. But “loners” are not valued by society because everything that makes money depends on groupthink.
That’s so true about money-making relying on groupthink. Also explains why so many people I know who are a little bit smarter than the average seem to make the most money, something I’ve long been perplexed by.
If you remove the reproduction parts these women won’t know the vaxx already did that for them. Another way for big pharma to hide what they did.
Those “dumb” people you know have great survival instincts. The smartest also didn’t get the shot because they can read and understand JAMA, BNJ, Cell, Nature etc
“Those “dumb” people you know have great survival instincts. The smartest also didn’t get the shot because they can read and understand JAMA, BNJ, Cell, Nature etc”
You’ve either misread my comment, or I attempted unsuccessfully to communicate sarcasm – and reading/comprehending JAMA, BMJ, Nature, et al, wasn’t going to get you very far in the beginning of this crisis.
I’m around very high IQ folks on a regular basis, as well as my very large extended family of in-laws are high IQ, very well educated and very accomplished in their fields.
To a person they’d bought-in to this bullshit from the beginning, and are in the process of vaxxing themselves to death with their 2nd or 3rd booster, all while ignoring the myrid bizarre acute health problems that are popping-up like a Whack-A-Mole game.
The problem with high IQ folks from my observation is that they think their intellect applies to EVERY situation and field of endeavor to which they turn their attention, supremely confident that their casual reading trumps even the lifetime of actual hands-on life experience of others.
Call it pride, arrogance, or hubris – high IQ people are anything but humble, and are total suckers for whatever line of shit comes from a perceived academic authority figure. They simply don’t have great survival instincts in the real world.
Fortunate for me that I was born stupid, therefore am immune to the ‘wisdom’ of my betters.
There are different kinds of “intelligence”. Being able to spot bullshit is a talent that many so-called “high IQ” people don’t have.
Interesting observations.
It seems the high-IQ people around me who want to continue blindly trusting the vaccine and The Science(TM) were socialised among other high-IQ people. They never had to painfully learn to question groupthink since all groupthink they ever witnessed was high IQ – it was mostly correct. It is paired with blazing arrogance about some perceived “lesser” (“let’s reward them with a doughnut!”) that they don’t want to be associated with.
Disregarding IQ, all vax fanatics seem to follow groupthink and suppress their inner voice.
This is not about IQ. It is about the strength of this self-thinking voice, and perhaps about empathy: Most critics became hesitant after early death reports appeared, or when the unexplained excess mortality showed up in the numbers. The vax fanatics were coldly ignorant about the death stories and did everything to dismiss them and the numbers.
If the fertility continues to go down it will mean the group followers with weak inner voices and low empathy – who were the nazis [many of which had high IQ] 100 years ago – have been driven into genetic suicide.
Maybe it is simply primates playing with fire, accelerated by social media. But you could begin to think that this has a spiritual dimension.
Groupthink. That’s a big reason for all this “following the science ” when they are clearly not. As with any follower you need to feel a sense of belonging and be able to express that. Virtue signaling, selfies of “I got vaccinated” and most importantly be able to put down those who don’t think like you. Hence the cult of covid. And their followers the branch covidians.
Even when some started to question things a bit they felt the need to signal to their group first. “I’m not an anti-vaxxer but”, “despite this, I believe in the jab / that all people should take it”
. . . beautifully stated, thanx.
it its core, this whole mess is totally and completely nothing but a spiritual/energetic issue. this is absolutely a battle of dark against light, and it all comes down to frequency, god, source, the force, etc. life is about being *reborn*, *born-again*- whatever people want to call it- essentially waking up and becoming conscious of what we are, and then raising our frequencies (we’re taught that the kingdom of god is inside us, but not how to access it) to improve ourselves and the world at-large.
nothing is as we’ve been told. nothing. instead, a certain cabal hijacked the history of this planet thousands of years ago, and are now endeavoring to exterminate those of us who won’t be needed in the great reset, as they make the shift to transhumanism; they won’t want folks they can’t mind control easily. their goal is to invert and pervert everything so that we stay discombobulated and never become conscious that we are electromagnetic, energetic beings here to better ourselves individually and as a group. there are so many distractions and so much fear thrown at us to keep us from connecting with our own energy systems, that many die without ever realizing there was a purpose behind all the horseshit conspiracy of everyday living, and that if they had woken up, they could have helped battle the sick parasitic fucks who’ve been killing us for centuries. if we all woke up right now, together we could snuff out the darkness in no time.
Kiel, I think it all comes down to common sense. From my own experience as an ‘outsider’ living in England is that most people are just so far removed from reality it is quite frightening. Here in England people have been given the illusion of intelligence. As you have quite rightly pointed out people who have been ‘educated’ to a very high level think they are experts on every subject. These people think just because they read about the Covid-19 vaccines in The Guardian or The Independent newspaper, they suddenly are experts because another expert told them this. These people told realise this is just another person’s very biased opinion. Also it never crosses their mind this is just propaganda. These so-called called intelligent people don’t realise, that a person can be intelligent but still stupid. Someone once said true knowledge is only gained when one realises the depth of one’s ignorance. That is the problem here, these so-called intelligent people are so ignorant that they are a danger to themselves now. An intelligent well informed person would never have taken the killer shot. In a nut shell in all comes down to critical thinking. Most ‘highly educated’ people haven’t realised that the whole mainstream media and educational system has been put in place to take away a society’s critical thinking. As the English say ‘Know all, know nothing’.
As you have quite rightly pointed out people who have been ‘educated’ to a very high level think they are experts on every subject.
I agree with your assessment. I will defend my inlaws in the sense that they are deeply Christian, and to all appearances to me the past 20 years, they walk the walk and were never vaxxholes. They discreetly pulling their hair out with worry that my wife and I have not hopped-on the train, however.
That said, I think the culture and education system literally ‘grooms’ smart people to be overly confident to the point of arrogance.
While I have you here, and if it’s not too personal, do you practice Islam? Are there passages in the Quran warning the faithful against getting involved or eating the fruits of pharmakeia? Most I’ve spoken with of the Christian faith view pharmakeia as witchcraft, and not applicable to Big Pharma.
To me, however, once you scratch beneath the surface; when one is torturing animals and using vivisected human infants in your witches potions, as does Big Pharma – what else can it be called other than good old fashion Pharmakeia?
Kiel, sorry I am do not belong to any religion. Though interestingly both Islam and Christianity are on the same page concerning the ‘end time’ scenario. Both religions agree the world sine the Fall Of Man, humanity has been in the grip of the Beast System. Big Pharma is controlled by Satanists. The whole objective of the Big Pharma companies is to kill as many people as possible from these Beast System Vaccines. It is one huge sacrifice orgy to Satan to open up The Pit. Human sacrifice opens up demonic portals. In order for Satan to have his Kingdom now on earth, 90% of humanity must be killed to allow demons and their entities to rule the world. But Christ will intervene at some point. Even Islam agrees on that. I hope this helps.
Aggresivly ignorant educated idiots…not high IQ individuals…if Kill Gates told me that there is a major population problem, and told me he could solve it by doing a good job with these vaccines…I would see that as a serious threat…but the highly educated don’t have any discernment or critical thinking skills to identify a threat like this…so the results become obvious as they go from Jab to the Slab…
I am a highb iq guy. Can’t spell worth a dam nor can I figure out a TV remote. But a puzzeller I am. The puzzelles of this world are easy to see they are consistant, goal driven and 100% driven by evil. As if billy boy needs money or world needs more power. Your food is poison, your air is poisioned, your oceans are poisioned, your bedding is poison, your me pillow is deadly, your leaders are lucifarians your culture is death. It all around you. We are back to the begining as the 1/3 deny the authority to name or define creation. With every new tech satilight – the uni-verse is more jaw dropping amazing, infinite and glorious. Oh and. One last point, your churches of the world are all catholic as the all preach the tripple threat pizza created to give the prima facial evidence of authority to concure and control. What began in about 300 a.d. still dominates today. Killing destroying and stealing the false military/church is on the move even now.
To harmonize with he who ordered all things, rsise your voice and give him the amen to his testimony about his son. No other way. P.s. by ivitation only comes the seat in the chorus, harmony is glorious.
Great insight Kiel! My brother is a PhD chemistry professor, fully vaxed and boosted and very belligerent against anyone who is not vaxed. My mother (who had only an 8th-grade education but was the sharpest and wisest person I ever knew) used to lament that he was so smart but had no common sense at all.
I worked at Princeton U. for over 15 years and saw this phenomenon first-hand. The worst thing was the arrogance many of these people had. They thought they knew everything and looked down on us “lesser beings” without advanced degrees. Most of them couldn’t find their way out of a paper bag.
I retired shortly after feminine products appeared in the men’s rooms and I started seeing Adam’s apples on people in the women’s rooms. I had had enough.
I just don’t think there are that many very high IQ people in your circle. I think you are overestimating their IQ. Very high IQ people are quite less common. You won’t know a bunch of them. They are likely mid IQ you are talking about. Most very high IQ people I know, such as myself, IQ over 150, no offense. I have not been jabbed. But most of the mid and low IQ normies around me, many very successful, have been death jabbed. PS education and accomplishment indicate more groupthink behaviors rather than IQ, once you get past say 110 IQ.
Those with a higher than average IQ would not immediately fall for the, “get the jab-get protected!” lie. I highly disagree with Kiel.
“Those with a higher than average IQ would not immediately fall for the, “get the jab-get protected!” lie.”
They do, and they are, according to the research of psychologist & professor Mattias Desmet of Holland. As a matter of fact, his stats are indicating that they have the highest uptake. Even he’s a bit stumped about who’s falling for this scam, and why.
I stumbled across him while searching for answers about what I’m observing in my own family. You may want to checkout some of his many interviews floating around from the past year.
I agree. One thing to note though: I thought Professor Desmet came from Belgium? Happy to be corrected if this is wrong?
I also disagree with the self-styled philosopher known as Kiel.
As someone born with an IQ in the one thirties, thank God I have never fully felt that I fit into the idiocracy that is the world that we’re living in, am repulsed by groupthink and am indifferent to sharing attitudes and behaviors with the lemmings being run off a cliff. When you disengage your mind, mentally take a step back (asking the Creator for wisdom and discernment also is vital, I think), you see what a managed reality we all live in. Because of this sense of detachment from the world we’re living in, I feel that a higher IQ is not a predictor of anything, but at least gives one a better chance to discern what is happening in front of one’s eyes, and not a predilection of compliance with the status quo.
It’s about Emotional Intelligence, EQ, not IQ. The Great Dumbing Down was a roaring success, just look at all the zombies walking around us screaming “My body, my choice!” while screaming at the same time, “Vaccines must be mandatory!”. They suffer from extreme cognitive dissonance because they lack critical thinking skills which causes them to emotionally react to everything.
The worst part about all of this is it’s a choice to be this way. Social media was the coup de gras of the Great Dumbing Down which is why it’s best to not be on it. It’s easy to control the masses when they function on emotions and not critical thinking. This is done using Aristotle’s Three Modes of Persuasion. The useless eaters lack of situational and self awareness on top of their normalcy bias is leading them to to their demise. All we can do is watch and figure out what our place here will be when they’re no longer with us. Well, not all the baby turtles make it to the sea.
Agreed. I work with many high IQ people (Engineers) and most of them have fallen for the fake pandemic and are injected with poison “vaccines”. I believe it’s something more along the lines of “street smarts” and being able to smell BS that allows a person to wake up and see these lies for what they are. Maybe it’s a spiritual thing as well… “But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.” Matthew 13:16
Matthew 7:15…do not put your trust in False Prophets…in this case Big Pharma, Politicians, or Acedemia…sadly most 501-c3 ( which equals 666 in numerology) government licensed Pastors are leading many in their congregation one way into the morgue and then into the Pit…too many believers in the faith are following these False pastors by not heeding sound scriptural doctrine…as churches are being used as Vaccine clinics to administer the Mark of the Beast and the pick pocketing pimping Pastors can continue to pass around the collection plate to collect unscriptual tithing…they get taxexemption for the loot and can’t call out the Beast System on their crimes…all while delivering Souls to Lucifer…IMHO…that is a much bigger monumental scam than the Internal Revenue Service…
Seen many highly educated people with several degrees unquestioningly go along with the propaganda – the Smith-Mundt act was repealed in 2013 I believe. Then there’s DEW’s and the like but let’s keep pretending those don’t exist and don’t affect everyone’s brains and bodies on a daily basis.
Degrees do not mean high IQ.
Actually they do. A person with a graduate degree has a higher IQ but emotional intelligence also plays a part, and individualism. Groupthink is the problem.
A person with a graduate degree has an higher IQ than whom?
Much of college is a joke. I graduated in my 30s and couldn’t believe what I saw. Complete morons. Some even had scholarships.
There are different types of degrees. Are you really going to tell me a PhD in Gender Studies has a higher IQ than an engineer with only a bachelor’s?
These degrees serve many purposes and none of it is education. They are building their brain-dead followers who can’t reason. They are building their social justice warriors that don’t understand they are the useful idiots. They are building another debt instrument who will do anything they ask because they have no money and no skills.
I know many stupid people, particularly under 40, who have graduate degrees. The decline in the standards of higher education is extremely noticeable.
“Degrees do not mean high IQ.”
Exactly. It only means high capacity to absorb and to be programmed. It also underlines a high desire to fit in and to be validated by society.
Not long ago they took a bunch of yale students to debate inmates (prisoners). The yale students looked like dump shit.
I used to coach volunteers at a homeless shelter in nyc that were sent by their big shot corporations (bloomberg, chase…etc). Sure they were very nice trying to help while promoting a good image of their company. 99% were as empty as the cosmos and as dumb as a box of rocks, like robots, no sense of humor, no common sense at all. Very coachable though and eager to do what they are told. They are handsomely rewarded by the system and make a very comfortable living, not a threat at all.
I can’t agree with you more. The people I know with ‘duh-grees” have fallen for this scamdemic without questioning. Many act superior because of their education which makes me laugh because they have lost all critical thinking and common sense.
Many times I was about to shout at those volunteers : “YOU CAN’T POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN BORN THIS WAY !. HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO BECOME THIS DUMB ?. ARE YOU TRYING TO WIN A CONTEST ?.”
The chef of the kitchen – himself a former homeless – , Mr James, used to hate to have to deal with them. He used to tell me : ” I can’t deal with these AH. You deal with them, give them a task, something to do, I am out of it !!!”.
Never said they did, neither is nepotism anything new. At least it’s looking hopeful for the lunatics running the asylum from the shadows – the majority have such expensive, Ivy League educations.
Then there’s DEWs and the like but let’s keep pretending those don’t exist and don’t affect everyone’s brains and bodies on a daily basis.
Ignorance is bliss, after all. Why else are the vaccine injured being largely ignored? We have the average citizen who can’t see past the end of their own nose, and the woke/woke patriot crowd who’re too busy fixating and prattling on about petty rubbish like political/religious affiliation (left/right bs) or things like sexual orientation to consider the future, or any broader issues of actual importance – NWO has them right where it wants them. In military nomenclature it’s called Full Spectrum Dominance; it’s so thoughtful of Billy Gates and Musk to launch all those satellites into space to track everyone and beam “5G” down on everything for our convenience.
“a higher IQ is a predictor of compliance with the status quo”
Really? Is that a conclusion of some sort of actual scientific study? It seems to me that it is your opinion only, and that it is also an incorrect statement.
Apparently the highest vax hesitancy levels are in blue collar workers (higher levels of common sense), and PhD holders (higher intelligence levels). It’s the mob in the middle who consider themselves oh-so clever are are “following the science”.
It’s called leftist indoctrination
What is major hilarious about this is the article says they hate men. Sooo it should be reasonable to assume if they really hate men and avoid them they wouldn’t need to worry about getting or not getting an abortion? I swear some days the stupid is strong with some people.
Those young females are utterly empty. Nothing moves them, they live only to serve their ego. Some of the women today above 35 yo may be the only worthy females still in circulation.
I know a beautiful one that just turned 36, who I should have warned, started to warn, about the vaccines in the fall of 2020, but didn’t, because her father rejected me, and she did earlier in 2019.
When I was in the military there was a saying I often heard regarding unattractive (to put it mildly) women: “I wouldn’t f*** her with YOUR d***!”
These three nuts, and others like them, are pretending that some male wants to have sex with them. Keep looking, ladies.
Ok we get it, but do we need to make everything about men and who they want to have sex with? Kind of crude.
These ladies opened the door to the discussion and I walked right in. If I were to make comments similar to theirs, I’d also be opening myself up for unflattering feedback.
As for “kind of crude,” I can assure you that I haven’t scratched the surface yet. The things GIs say to each other are beyond imagination.
Thanks for keeping it real Brian. These are difficult days and I’m very grateful for your reporting. May God continue to bless you. You are in my daily prayers.
I was going to write something really nasty about Trump-stein and his retarded followers until I saw the little Filipino boy who passed. Now all I can think about is my grandson.
Trump will end up killing off his whole family until he puts his ego aside and faces reality. The pressure was grand but the lockdown and vaccines were a huge mistake. He began it and it was later pushed fiercely by the global liberal order. It is now shown the lockdowns did very little in terms of saving lives from covid. I would argue that more lives were potentially lost and so many lives destroyed from fauci’s continual one size fits all policies.
I wouldn’t be upset to see Trump drop from a clot at one of these rallies. He’s become nothing more than a Big Pharma rep that cares only about himself and his money. He’s no better than Fauci or Gates. All psychopaths.
Trump is one of them, he is a WEF puppet. He spoke at Davos two years in a row, he pushes the same narrative as Biden, the vax is safe, only those who didn’t get it are dying, according to both Trump and Biden. It’s a tell tale sign as to who their loyalty is to.
If you want some first class Trump entertainment, read the threads on Trump’s Gab posts.
The sh#t-libs can’t get a word in edgewise for all the hate his former supporters are laying down over the vaxx . . . crazy times.
Trump is a phony. He’s just an actor playing the part of “conservative”. He’s a Zionist (possibly a member of the tribe) and a vaccine pusher. He tricked his followers into coming to the Capitol on Jan. 6, etc. Trump hates his fan base, he views them as utter morons.
“At least they will have one last positive memory to go along with their eternal regret related to the injections.” – Damn. That hit hard. I attended a Roger Waters concert in Toronto of all places a week ago (the whole ‘we will do a health check so you can get into the venue’ thing is a scam – – no one asked me for a vaxx pass). Anyways, there’s a line in the song “Two Suns in the Sunset” which goes: ‘And I suffer premonitions, confirm suspicions, of the Holocaust to come.’ Gave me shivers. Does he know? The guy is pretty woke now though. Anyways, people who used to be in certain places, grocery workers, gym-goers, who are now no longer there – – I can’t help wondering about them.
Smile ??? I will try. It won’t take much and maybe brighten their day. Mine too as the daily illnesses etc seem to be growing. Cancers and even physical appearance. They look older. It’s taking an emotional toll on me too. It’s hard to bear witness sometimes. I will have to pray and regroup. And smile and live a joyful life.
I now fully understand the meaning of the phrase ‘best revenge is living well.’ Everyone who got angry over my pureblood status: F ’em! I’ve got hopefully many more active years in front of me.
Well I even feel like I look older, but no vax or tests!
Ian Morris – good riddance; wish you had died sooner or not been born. I hope the rest of your family goes with you.
Trump is evil. He is the flip side of the biden actor – someone to lead his followers to death. “biden” was chosen for liberals because they are beyond retarded, and trump was chosen for “conservatives” because they respond his kind of moronic bluster.
regarding iq – yes the bioweapon is an iq test in a way but it is really more of a discernment test. i know people with reasonably high iqs and quite “successful” but they were brainwashed with 60hz signals which completely vaporized their ability to think. thus the issue is that people confuse ability to memorize and comply with intelligence. and in the new world order compliance = high iq.
Yes, good riddance. Vax Gestapo guys like him make me mad. The only thing which is dissatisfying is that he likely did not know that he is dying due to the vax. I wish that the vax zealots have some sort of epiphany just right before they die and then scream what fucking pieces of shot they have been. Then they can die in peace.
I’m hoping some vaxxed ppl turn their sights on their doctors and other health / authority figures and take them out before they depart. But unfortunately not too many seem to wake up. They go to their graves ignorant of what was done to them.
Putting photos and life stories on these names is very touching. Now there have always been a few cases of people dying unexpectedly. When I was a college student years ago, one of my Summer jobs involved work in a hospital. One of the nurses told me of a neighbor of hers about age 35 found dead in his house. They discovered he had a bacterial infection in his blood, a “septicemia”. Had he known, several or more weeks of appropriate antibiotics could have saved him. Several years later in my first “professional” job, a secretary told me of a young man maybe 25 who died suddenly. He had a cerebral hemorrhage from an “AV malformation” – an arteriovenous malformation is a big defect in the cerebral circulation where the high pressure arterial blood mixes with low pressure venous blood. Maybe brain surgery could have saved him, I don’t know. What is different now is the sheer number of these cases and the links many of them have with the experimental vaccines. The MSM and social media using the most ridiculous reasons are desperate to knock down even those cases linked to vaccine deaths – are they in on this or are they worried about losing pharmaceutical ad revenue?
the genocide is so far beyond money and has absolutely nothing to do with it. the murderers have all of the money they could possibly want. this attack is about power, control, and murder.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
-KJV
I would even postulate that your specified cases may be vaccine-related injuries. I say this because the pandemic has shown us how big pharma and its regulators really operate. Cronyism, sophomoric testing and a complete disregard for empirical science. If they can’t even develop a real test to detect “COVID” and its so-called variants, how do you know their diagnosis of bacterial infection and AV malformation are in any ways accurate? I suspect there is much information we need to revisit and look at with a new lens.
I am suspicious of every vaccine now, as a result of the obvious fraud in these injections. If I had my time over I would most likely not get my kids vaccinated in childhood. I made sure they didn’t get a couple of them I thought were unnecessary and had too many side effects, but now I think they are likely all terrible.
No, I should have been more specific – those two cases reported to me took place more than 40 years ago. Statistically, yes, there will always be some people who “die before their time” as death is a part of life. What appears to be different now is the sheer number of them (based on life insurance payouts, reports here, and on other sites) and the connection many of them have to these experimental vaccines. A 3 year old girl in Brazil “expiring” from a cardiac arrest? An 11 year old girl there “expiring” from a cerebral hemorrhage? That is unheard of as these were reportedly healthy children. The only link between the child cases just mentioned is the experimental vaccines.
The twitter search is taking up too much of my time. The other day I found a little group, including a so called doctor, puzzled over SADS and of course starting to blame so called covid-19, for SADS. I can’t even
Anyway good reporting as always.
With the recent talk lately of the newest and more deadly scarient # ba 4-5/ ninja (I think) may be used by .gov to explain the increased amount of deaths. Not many people are buying the SAD’s or the ridiculous reasons now given for sudden heart attacks. Faucci and the CDC seem to be marketing this scarient differently. I don’t think the boosters are selling as well and the numbers I’ve seen relating to vaxx of children is minuscule, thankfully. It could be something as simple as more greed from these folks, but who knows. To be puzzled at this point of this worldwide genocide puzzles me.
“I ain’t too proud to tell you I cry sometimes about it”
My mom has gone from forgetful to clearly starting dementia in the past 2 years . She says she feels clear headed on her new psych meds . At least she said sge hasn’t gotten any boosters huh . Ha
My elderly dad was a little forgetful before he got the injections but he was in pretty decent health at that point. Now, about 1.5 years later, 2 Pfizer shots last spring and boosted last fall, he is a shell of the man he was less than 2 years ago. He’s really starting to look his age. He used to always look younger than his years. He’s lost a lot of weight. His dementia has progressed significantly. I was surprised at how easily he was brainwashed into taking the shots. It became an obsession while the rest of our family has refused them. He’s the only one that took them, yet we were all the “stupid” ones for refusing to take them. He hasn’t asked for any boosters but I don’t really think he has the ability to remember whether he would want one or not at all anymore.
“Centurus” half man made, half horse shit
So Trump is the first cult leader to brainwash his followers into thinking for themselves. Imagine Hitler ordering all Jews be relocated to concentration camps, But. . . they don’t have to go if they don’t want to. . . because they do have their freedoms ya-know. Imagine Jim Jones commanding his followers to drink the poison kool-Aid, or. . . if they choose, they can drink this perfectly safe lemon-aid instead, because they do have their freedoms ya-know.
Just before the death shots were released to the public, Trump came down with Covid, he treated it with Hydroxychloriquine and barely missed a beat in his three rallies per day presidential campaign. He not only told us about the cure, but demonstrated the cure for a virus less deadly than the flu. Why would anyone take an Experimental shot, unapproved by the FDA, and giving manufacturers liability immunity for a virus highly unlikely to kill you?
If I order my wife a drink and the waiter brings her a drink laced with poison, did I not have every right to believe the drink would have no poison in it? Trump order a VACCINE. What he got was something completely different. They even changed the definition of a vaccine. The new definition of vaccine implies sunshine be defined as a vaccine. In that case, I am vaccinated, and I will be boosted tomorrow when the sun comes up.
Nothing like D3 to make ya healthier! Well said.
RE: Novavax is also marketed as the preferred injection for the “vaccine hesitant.”
I’m not “hesitant.” I’m flat-out refusing.
This “hesitant” label makes it sound like that we’ll submit, if only we’re presented with the proper marketing approach.
I guess nose rings are ‘de rigeur’ among young female professionals now?
I am assuming you are saying that firmly with tongue in cheek?. Honestly, I think those females are professional whingers.
Yeah they’re kind of annoying but they’re actually mentioned in the Bible. Women wore them in Biblical times.
I think Ivana Trump was bumped off with the vaccine. Let’s add to this list Tom Jones who collapsed on stage. He had to cancel his concerts too. Alan Carr the famous British comedian collapsed during a show too. The British comedian Rhod Gilbert diagnosed with a ‘rare cancer’. He is vaccinated too. And Joan Collins had to be air lifted to hospital in France. She too is vaccinated. These people have wealth and fame but no common sense. It just shows money cannot buy critical thinking. All my best friends are vaccinated. I have mentally prepared myself for their ‘sudden deaths’ too.
What? Tom Jones? Joan Collins? Oh, and Brett Michaels had to be hospitalized a week back. CRAZY stuff!
Trump can want to “have a talk” with people like me all he wants. Big pharma sell-out never saw a dollar he didn’t like the smell of, and anyone foolish enough to vote for him or get a vax merely because he keeps hawking it deserves whatever fate awaits them.
I will vote for no politician ever again who does not even try to tell the truth about the covid “vaccines.”
trump can shove his talk up his ass. he is pure evil.
I don’t know if it’s right, but I relax reading your articles , have a coffee and read, it’s strange because the news aren’t easy, but probably because it’s the truth!
“Novavax” is a vax for the non-vaxxed. Very subtle, indeed.
“No va” = no go in spanish.
(That’s why Chevy NoVa wouldn’t sell in latin america.)
like the new Audi E-Tron 2022 in french markets. In french, Etron is p**p
If he is right, there will be a lot of orphaned children in the years to come?
Here is what I am noticing a LOT in my area as I read the obits – ‘died at their residence’ and died unexpectedly’ are commonplace now. People in their 30’s, 40’s and 50’s are dying at home and/or dying unexpectedly. Here’s a couple of samples -Donald W. Newman, 55, died at 1:28 p.m. Friday, July 15, 2022 at his home in Jerseyville.”
“Yvonne M. Campbell age 44 unexpectedly departed this life Wednesday July 13, 2022, in Jamaica.’ I am sure this one was vaxxed because you can’t travel unless you are jabbed. I am also sure she now realizes it wasn’t worth it.
Yes, in fact the truth is considered evil these days…
Or at least the enemy of government.
Yeah. I need to have a talk with Señor Trump, too. Tell him how dumb he is for pushing the clot shots.
I laughed out loud, when I saw the worry-o-meter above. It brought back memories of the post 9-11 fear-color-of-day. The constant changing of the colors to manipulate the fear level was blatantly obvious. Jerking people around, keeping a high level of uncertainty, is textbook mind-control. It was clear from the beginning of the scamdemic, that the globalists had dusted off the playbook from 9-11, and we’re using the exact same techniques. I wondered why nobody was noticing. About three years after 9-11, I was trying to wake up a person I had recently met. She seemed open-minded, but had a real block accepting the truth about 9-11. Then she said: “Well, I always thought that danger color code was strange. It was like they were trying to make people more afraid.” No s***, Sherlock…might you be starting to see the light? Keep it up and you just might have a tiny chance to survive what is coming (I was thinking this, but did not vocalize my thoughts).
Yesterday I read a phrase in an obit I have never seen in an obit before: died of undetermined natural causes.
Notice the worrymeter doesnt have zero
“Centaur”, does it means Horse Paste will work against it?
Am I the only one who is burned out? My empathy is done.
Trying to be nice and have sympathy, but I’m surrounded by people who believe and obey everything on Fakebook, Twatter, NPR. Zombie apocalypse in full force.
It gets harder and harder to feel sorry for them when all they do is get angry at you or call you a nut. I find all I can do is speak truth and just shoot down (in flames!) every single one of their arguments when the subject comes up.
In my area where the covidiots are abundant, I now see a resurgence of masks and testing. They are outwardly more fearful too. They should be as they have poisoned themselves and their children. They still believe the narrative but I sense a desperation to their actions and behaviors. Maybe at some level they are realizing they are screwed. But I refuse to participate in any covid theater. I am burned out too. They are exhausting. ??
Delta, Omicron, Centaurus, etc… Do they get these names from the giant robots in the Transformer movies?
Eventually they will run out of names and have to start using Ninja Turtle names.
I bet Donatello will be super deadly. ?
“The CDC, FDA and mainstream media renewed COVID-19 for a fourth season” is one of the best (and truest) lines I have ever read.
I’m addicted to The COVID Blog.
I read an article the other day on People (mindless reading) about a girl who suddenly had an aortic dissection, and they were blaming a chiropractor.
I wondered then if this was a Satan Shot injury, but after reading about Mr. Cardone, I’m now sure it was a case of #ABV.
The level or heights of insanity from people like ‘Carol Tarrant’ calling Brian Wilkins, our fabulous blogger, evil because he tells the truth is exactly what the Bible talks about….people in the last days only want to hear what their itching ears want to hear. They deny Jesus Christ as the Truth, they hate God’s Word and they love lies. All objective facts that don’t fit their narrative/worldview are discarded as ‘evil’ or disinformation(whatever woke term that supposed to be). It is profoundly depressing how rational debate and discussion has been vilified.
Thank goodness Ian Morris was vaccinated and boosted! Or he would be worse off than being dead! Not like those wretched anti-vaxxers that are suffering and remain, er, not dead.
“50 million excess deaths”?
Everyone (vaxxed) who I despise in real life & on forums is still alive
They are still running their mouths, parroting MS, obnoxious, arrogant, ignorant, loudmouth motherfackers
Great post. Reading it, I both laughed and cried (on the inside). I laughed because that’s really all one can do these days to maintain one’s sanity in this insane Covid world; I cried on the inside because of all of the unnecessary deaths from this “vaccine” kill plan. And Trump? Who knows why he became a vaxx zealot…I am not really surprised. It’s a requirement for anyone who wants to receive the adulation and attention they crave.
regarding the iq debate, i read a survey in 2021 which analyzed people by education attainment and their likelihoods of taking the suicide serum. Those with a master’s degree and high school diploma supported it the most followed by those with a bachelor’s degree. People with a doctorate or less than high school diploma were least likely to take the injection.
education does not equate with iq but as a generalization correlates with it. however, education is a training camp, along with talmudavision, to create an obedient, foolish people.
I have known a few people who had extremely high IQs, who lived in poverty. These are the smartest, most savvy folks you will ever meet. They turn their high IQs to solving problems without the use money, and this is where intelligence turns into genius. Instead of just surviving in poverty, these folks thrive in poverty.They also have highly tuned BS detectors.
The urge to seek higher education (a misnomer, if ever there was one) is usually based on two things:
#1. How much of a person’s self-esteem comes from outside of themselves,..how important to them is validation from outside sources.
#2 How important are material comforts to the person. Every highly intelligent person I’ve met, has always picked personal freedom over material comfort (of course, this purely a person observation, I tend to meet many more folks living unconventional lives, than conventional lives).
High IQ doesn’t have much to do with higher education. Engaging in higher education is a cultural thing, and in particular, a family culture thing.
“Those with a master’s degree and high school diploma supported it the most followed by those with a bachelor’s degree.”
I don’t know how it divides along educational lines, I’ve never come across any verifiable data on the subject. Anecdotally it seems the more college educated are over represented in this demographic, but it would also stand to reason that those most entrenched in the system will be most likely to obey regardless of their education status, personal belief system and what have you. Lovers of fascism want nothing more than the Chinafication of the West.
I have a Bachelors of Science. I went to an art school but a did programming/web develpoment curriculum. I am a software engineer for my day job. Although a lot software developers have taken the serum. I was seeing it on LinkedIn over the last 2 years of a lot of devs in my network saying they got it. I’m just not the type to conform. None of it made any sense so I found people who spoke out against it from the jump.
I’m a Software Developer too. The vast majoritiy of the other SW and EE guys I work with took the poison. They are “smart” in terms of knowledge of their field, but absolute morons when it comes to falling for the Covid scam and having blind trust in government.
I live in a nightmare hell out of the Sci-fi movies like body snatchers. I have been saying the reality of where we are for 2.5 years and people around me know I said these things but they deny now or completely refuse to acknowledge that what I have been saying is accurate when it has been 90% on the money.
It is useless to argue because you create enemies even though these people are ignorant as a rock in the garden. These same people partake of gas lighting and even though you were accurate they insist you still have no idea what you are talking about regardless of how “correct” you have always been! I no longer have words for how idiotic people are who are ordinarily relatively bright with other things not related to this non-sense with covidmania fanatical satanic cult.
As we have seen they will promote the lies even if it costs them their lives.
It must be a terrible feeling knowing deep down inside that the damage is irreversible but still practicing Stockholm Syndrome because they are too proud to admit that they have been HAD. I just wonder how long the Epic Sellout Doctors and Nurses collecting the Moolah and continuing the Jab to the Slab rituals think they can get away with this Charade before a few of their victims and their families show up right at their doorsteps for some Payback? It has to happen at some point…it’s a mathematical certainty…
We had one on TV all smiling and handsome but lying through his teeth and having been wrong for years with his lies. However they keep getting away with it so they keep doing unashamedly.
From the news report “ it was 98° outside in Natchitoches, with a heat index of more than 107°.”
That’s 36.7 and 41.7 respectively in Celsius. LOL, people have run marathons in that weather and have still made it.
These new “variants” multiply faster than politicians’ lies, if that were possible.