Aug 30, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
It will be interesting to see how much public interest there is in the fall booster campaign. The public ignoring the shots for <5 is telling, and around me all the friends who proudly posted pictures of their kids wearing masks to school and claimed they would do this forever to avoid the flu, without fanfare, stopped wearing them. It was nice to see so many 'first day of school' pictures flood facebook the past two weeks of smiling happy kids going back to normal.
I'm reminded of how similar fads suddenly disappeared throughout the years. One day everyone is wearing a snap bracelet in 1990, the next, no one wears one and acts like they never did. Seems masks have gone the way of snap bracelets outside of hospitals.
Cautiously optimistic that the tide is turning, seeing the Miami Herald platform Marc Thiessen's piece "Dr. Fauci got it wrong, and schoolchildren are paying a high price" [1] is a positive sign, even if Marc was so wrong about so very much during the 00's (he was speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld and neo-con hawk).
On the other hand, as Paul Thacker notes today in his piece "Silence From Science Community as NIH Cancels Grant to Wuhan Institute of Virology" [2] , the press/media/TheScience continues to ignore the rot and is not interested in holding anyone accountable for this man made catastrophe.
i think it depends on where. I used to live in Silicon Valley until last month. My husband still travels there for work. We now live in a red state, Idaho, and I've seen about 3 masks total here. He traveled last week back to CA, and about a 1/3 of people are still wearing masks. Some put them on as they got onto the airplane to fly to San Jose, and didn't take them off. As winter approaches, it will be interesting to see if that number stays the same or rises.
Definitely depends on where you live, but the boundaries are closing in. The fact that you only saw 1/3 of people in CA wearing masks indicates that the fad is on it's last legs.
It's clear that people don't want to wear them. They never wanted to wear them. Even those who virtual signaled how important they were, and how they would wear them forever, are taking them off.
Now the question becomes, how does the press, media, and The Science react to this discovery?
Do they pivot back to the side of the people for the clicks and affirmation? Do they continue to bury their heads in the sand, pretending they are popular and effective?
Am I just seeing what I want to see and the talismans will come roaring back in a few months?
I'll chip in here as being 31-years post heart&lung transplant*, I'm kinda qualified!
It absolutely galls me they use this immunosuppression angle. Whilst tx patients are canaries in the mine for many health issues, I'm living proof that high quality diet, hard regular exercise, and a few health hacks can do wonders for you. And when it comes to health interventions less is more and quality over quantity!
I'm on 0 jabs and fellow tx are on their 6th jab!! I've had 31 years experience of telling surgeons to go fish when they wanted to open me up again or take another set of meds, so was actually well prepared come 2019. What I felt hard was that the other tx people (who have an estimated post-op lifespan of 7-8 years were being asked to spend 1-2 of it 'shielding at home'). Damn we all have relatively short lives, so any time spent under house arrest is pretty criminal.
p.s. just read the comment section and it's a lot healthier than say a year ago - (given these people are on Yahoo news.)
Thanks for your feedback and perspective. I have two friends who both have young sons with cystic fibrosis, and throughout the last 2 years both of them appear to be living life as normal as possible despite being extremely vulnerable to respiratory infections.
It's crazy that people would have preferred they sacrifice even a single day let alone two years when their lifespans are likely half or even a third of ours.
Aug 30, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
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I love the fact that Substack lets sites like this exist. It would be a tragedy if lack of funds led to the loss of voices like the Naked Emperor. You will not be disappointed if you subscribe.
Aug 30, 2022Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
It'd be interesting to see your take on food supply. I've heard several people really panic about it, Neil Oliver, Jordan Petersen, etc. but I'm not buying it...
US/Australia have had bumper harvests, so the whole US food production/fires seems over the top too with no real impact.
I just find it hard squaring the very real impacts on privacy, bodily autonomy, freedom to travel with these other worries. I have no axe to grind with those who are jumping to these conclusions as the paucity of truthful reporting and lack of journalistic integrity has left us all scrabbling to try and concoct our own truths.
As such we have to pick and choose, and you're one of the most stable opinions I find (perhaps because you put so much effort into staying broadly informed?!) whereas others I have to occasionally pull back from. Other than the aforementioned I also got riled by Alex Berenson's live on-air bullying of Malone (albeit it did make me research mRNA and realise that there's a 60 year history of invention from Watson and Crick onwards and Malone is at best a partial player through the 80's and 90's and by no means the sole creator or able to take the "inventor of mRNA" crown he wore/wears) and Berenson's cherry-picked drubbing of Ivermectin. Sigh.
I also liked Matthew Crawford's Round the Earth, but his comment section got too twisted for my liking.
Anyway, anyone reading this... Naked Emperor is worth it for sure!
I think in the West we are resilient enough, at the moment, re food supply. But it will hit poorer countries. However, like in 2020, if some panic event were instigated and panic buying started up again, supplies could go low for a number of weeks.
Like you, I find the food production fire stories interesting but then struggle to see them having any impact whilst at such a small scale.
I've been to marginalized African counties and nobody's starving...
War torn areas a different story it seems but that's a different issue. This happened to come out when Elon got pressure from the World Food Agency dude. Who had to shut up in the end.
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It will be interesting to see how much public interest there is in the fall booster campaign. The public ignoring the shots for <5 is telling, and around me all the friends who proudly posted pictures of their kids wearing masks to school and claimed they would do this forever to avoid the flu, without fanfare, stopped wearing them. It was nice to see so many 'first day of school' pictures flood facebook the past two weeks of smiling happy kids going back to normal.
I'm reminded of how similar fads suddenly disappeared throughout the years. One day everyone is wearing a snap bracelet in 1990, the next, no one wears one and acts like they never did. Seems masks have gone the way of snap bracelets outside of hospitals.
Cautiously optimistic that the tide is turning, seeing the Miami Herald platform Marc Thiessen's piece "Dr. Fauci got it wrong, and schoolchildren are paying a high price" [1] is a positive sign, even if Marc was so wrong about so very much during the 00's (he was speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld and neo-con hawk).
On the other hand, as Paul Thacker notes today in his piece "Silence From Science Community as NIH Cancels Grant to Wuhan Institute of Virology" [2] , the press/media/TheScience continues to ignore the rot and is not interested in holding anyone accountable for this man made catastrophe.
[1] https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article265051159.html
[2] https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/silence-from-science-community-as
i think it depends on where. I used to live in Silicon Valley until last month. My husband still travels there for work. We now live in a red state, Idaho, and I've seen about 3 masks total here. He traveled last week back to CA, and about a 1/3 of people are still wearing masks. Some put them on as they got onto the airplane to fly to San Jose, and didn't take them off. As winter approaches, it will be interesting to see if that number stays the same or rises.
Definitely depends on where you live, but the boundaries are closing in. The fact that you only saw 1/3 of people in CA wearing masks indicates that the fad is on it's last legs.
It's clear that people don't want to wear them. They never wanted to wear them. Even those who virtual signaled how important they were, and how they would wear them forever, are taking them off.
Now the question becomes, how does the press, media, and The Science react to this discovery?
Do they pivot back to the side of the people for the clicks and affirmation? Do they continue to bury their heads in the sand, pretending they are popular and effective?
Am I just seeing what I want to see and the talismans will come roaring back in a few months?
Then again, I read shit like this and I weep for mankind
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-ditch-covid-measures-pandemic-073019472.html
I'll chip in here as being 31-years post heart&lung transplant*, I'm kinda qualified!
It absolutely galls me they use this immunosuppression angle. Whilst tx patients are canaries in the mine for many health issues, I'm living proof that high quality diet, hard regular exercise, and a few health hacks can do wonders for you. And when it comes to health interventions less is more and quality over quantity!
I'm on 0 jabs and fellow tx are on their 6th jab!! I've had 31 years experience of telling surgeons to go fish when they wanted to open me up again or take another set of meds, so was actually well prepared come 2019. What I felt hard was that the other tx people (who have an estimated post-op lifespan of 7-8 years were being asked to spend 1-2 of it 'shielding at home'). Damn we all have relatively short lives, so any time spent under house arrest is pretty criminal.
p.s. just read the comment section and it's a lot healthier than say a year ago - (given these people are on Yahoo news.)
Thanks for your feedback and perspective. I have two friends who both have young sons with cystic fibrosis, and throughout the last 2 years both of them appear to be living life as normal as possible despite being extremely vulnerable to respiratory infections.
It's crazy that people would have preferred they sacrifice even a single day let alone two years when their lifespans are likely half or even a third of ours.
Every time this site has a subscription drive, I put in a note. This is one of the best subs I have...and I have many. The summaries of articles in a day are priceless and save literal hours of poking around. The thinking is clear and concise as is the writing.
I love the fact that Substack lets sites like this exist. It would be a tragedy if lack of funds led to the loss of voices like the Naked Emperor. You will not be disappointed if you subscribe.
Thanks Dr. K!
It'd be interesting to see your take on food supply. I've heard several people really panic about it, Neil Oliver, Jordan Petersen, etc. but I'm not buying it...
US/London wheat prices are below 2013 levels https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/wheat
US/Australia have had bumper harvests, so the whole US food production/fires seems over the top too with no real impact.
I just find it hard squaring the very real impacts on privacy, bodily autonomy, freedom to travel with these other worries. I have no axe to grind with those who are jumping to these conclusions as the paucity of truthful reporting and lack of journalistic integrity has left us all scrabbling to try and concoct our own truths.
As such we have to pick and choose, and you're one of the most stable opinions I find (perhaps because you put so much effort into staying broadly informed?!) whereas others I have to occasionally pull back from. Other than the aforementioned I also got riled by Alex Berenson's live on-air bullying of Malone (albeit it did make me research mRNA and realise that there's a 60 year history of invention from Watson and Crick onwards and Malone is at best a partial player through the 80's and 90's and by no means the sole creator or able to take the "inventor of mRNA" crown he wore/wears) and Berenson's cherry-picked drubbing of Ivermectin. Sigh.
I also liked Matthew Crawford's Round the Earth, but his comment section got too twisted for my liking.
Anyway, anyone reading this... Naked Emperor is worth it for sure!
Thanks.
I think in the West we are resilient enough, at the moment, re food supply. But it will hit poorer countries. However, like in 2020, if some panic event were instigated and panic buying started up again, supplies could go low for a number of weeks.
Like you, I find the food production fire stories interesting but then struggle to see them having any impact whilst at such a small scale.
I've been to marginalized African counties and nobody's starving...
War torn areas a different story it seems but that's a different issue. This happened to come out when Elon got pressure from the World Food Agency dude. Who had to shut up in the end.
I looked at the Sri Lanka riot photos and the average BMI looked about 30! Hehe
I love your substack! For those on the fence, NE's weekly roundup is really really really good. I don't have a lot of money, but its the reason I subscribe- its a great collection of what's going on in the world, Covid and otherwise