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2022-04-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Posted by Huperong Angavimp9677 2022-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 Found this the other day. Sites block searches and posts more than ever.
Posted by Dale 2022-04-09 03:58||   2022-04-09 03:58|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2022-04-09 05:32||   2022-04-09 05:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Go to substack dot com. (To find someone using a search engine just type in a name + "substack.com"; then click "Let me read it first" to peruse without paying for a subscription.)

These substack writers offer the best COVID reporting, analysis and not least, ironic / sarcastic humor in the face of global COVID follies:

Dr Robert W Malone: rwmalonemd.substack.com

Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch: Stevekirsch.substack.com

Florida litigation attorney Jeff Childers: Coffeeandcovid.substack.com

Former NYT journalist Alex Betenson: Alexberenson.substack.com

An anonymous but scientifically-expert East Coast medical researcher:
boriquagato.substack.com

from Austria, another scientifically-literate anonymous professor:
fackel.substack.com

from Germany, an anonymous doctor: eugyppius.substack.com


Posted by Injun Forkbeard9917 2022-04-09 05:36||   2022-04-09 05:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Dr. Fauci was the first guest to accept the invitation, Mr. DeFrank added. “That gave us some optimism,

That, simply out of principle, should have been enough to cancel one's attendance. Since many of the attendees are unprincipled, they have now become ill.

I'll take Karma for $600. Alex.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-09 06:28||   2022-04-09 06:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Chalk up another "win" for those "safe & effective" vaccines.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-04-09 07:46||   2022-04-09 07:46|| Front Page Top

#6 What else is our gummint buying that doesn't work? Or maybe the question is, do they buy anything that does work anymore?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-09 07:58||   2022-04-09 07:58|| Front Page Top

#7 ...votes.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-04-09 08:03||   2022-04-09 08:03|| Front Page Top

#8 very good, Vinegar.
Posted by Mercutio 2022-04-09 08:24||   2022-04-09 08:24|| Front Page Top

#9 What exactly does "tested positive" mean here?
An active case of COVID?
Evidence of antibodies in the blood, meaning they have been exposed but never sick, or sick and recovered?
Or another example of the PCR test, which was never meant for this purpose, being cranked up to high?

Posted by SteveS 2022-04-09 08:24||   2022-04-09 08:24|| Front Page Top

#10 What exactly does "tested positive" mean here?

It means that polling shows people are more concerned about the economy and the potential for war than they are of the Holy Virus. So the elites want to crank the skeer up to 12.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-09 08:41||   2022-04-09 08:41|| Front Page Top

#11 François Bonivard, Chronicles of Geneva, second volume, pages 395 – 402

“When the bubonic plague struck Geneva in 1530, everything was ready. They even opened a whole hospital for the plague victims. With doctors, paramedics and nurses. The traders contributed, the magistrate gave grants every month. The patients always gave money, and if one of them died alone, all the goods went to the hospital.

But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good.

And then the doctors got organized. At first, they just poisoned patients to raise the mortality statistics, but they quickly realized that the statistics didn’t have to be just about mortality, but about mortality from plague. So they began to cut the boils from the bodies of the dead, dry them, grind them in a mortar and give them to other patients as medicine. Then they started dusting clothes, handkerchiefs and garters. But somehow the plague continued to abate. Apparently, the dried buboes didn’t work well. Doctors went into town and spread bubonic powder on door handles at night, selecting those homes where they could then profit. As an eyewitness wrote of these events, “this remained hidden for some time, but the devil is more concerned with increasing the number of sins than with hiding them.”

In short, one of the doctors became so impudent and lazy that he decided not to wander the city at night, but simply threw a bundle of dust into the crowd during the day. The stench rose to the sky and one of the girls, who by a lucky chance had recently come out of that hospital, discovered what that smell was.

The doctor was tied up and placed in the good hands of competent “craftsmen.” They tried to get as much information from him as possible. However, the execution lasted several days. The ingenious hypocrites were tied to poles on wagons and carried around the city. At each intersection the executioners used red-hot tongs to tear off pieces of meat. They were then taken to the public square, beheaded and quartered, and the pieces were taken to all the districts of Geneva.

The only exception was the hospital director’s son, who did not take part in the trial but blurted out that he knew how to make potions and how to prepare the powder without fear of contamination. He was simply beheaded “to prevent the spread of evil”.
Posted by Slenter Fillmore5200 2022-04-09 08:44||   2022-04-09 08:44|| Front Page Top

#12 #11 François Bonivard, Chronicles of Geneva, second volume, pages 395 – 402

We're glad you're here.
Posted by badanov 2022-04-09 08:46||   2022-04-09 08:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Finally! A 'super-spreader' event!
Posted by Bobby 2022-04-09 09:00||   2022-04-09 09:00|| Front Page Top

#14 There's hope:

Study: COVID-19 Can Kill Months After Infection
Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-09 09:15||   2022-04-09 09:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Are the Dems prepping for another stolen election, i.e. the 2022 elections. Create and hype another pandemic scare, push mail-in voting, stuff ballot boxes, bring out the dead voters and multiple-voting voters, rig voting machines, insert fake ballots, steal critical elections.

For crying out loud, can we not arrest these people and or divorce ourselves from Washington corruption?
Posted by JohnQC 2022-04-09 10:00||   2022-04-09 10:00|| Front Page Top

#16 ^#14 - Johns Hopkins University says ... about 570,000 people in the United States have died of coronavirus-related reasons.

But this morning, the Johns Hopkins site put the death toll over 800k. Worldometers has it over one million.

Some inconsistency observed.
Posted by Bobby 2022-04-09 12:35||   2022-04-09 12:35|| Front Page Top

#17 JOHNQC, national politicians live in their home states. Why do politicians from Wyoming live in DC. With the internet and communication devices most of their work, besides once or twice a year ceremonial duties could be performed from their home states. The current procedure is about as sensible as day light savings time.
Posted by Papa Cooky 2022-04-09 14:12||   2022-04-09 14:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Finally! A 'super-spreader' event!

You talking Covid or Kamela?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-09 15:23||   2022-04-09 15:23|| Front Page Top

#19 #11 But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good

Same as it ever was.

We could use some hot tongs for our own plague-mongers
Posted by Greck Fillmore6253 2022-04-09 15:36||   2022-04-09 15:36|| Front Page Top

#20 Another tragic COVID death. The extremely dangerous Da[rwin] variant.
Posted by Grolush Ebbease3547 2022-04-09 15:59||   2022-04-09 15:59|| Front Page Top

#21 ^^ Yeah, crossing an interstate highway around 6:30am.

Waiting for Biden or the Ohio governor to order the flags at half staff.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-04-09 18:31||   2022-04-09 18:31|| Front Page Top

#22 @11 François Bonivard, Chronicles of Geneva, second volume

This looked dubious to me, so I DDG'd it, and it looked even more dubious, given the sites re-posting it. So, I spent some time looking for the original. Here it is:

Chronicles of Geneva

My French is very limited, but with the help of Google and DeepL I produced this:

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This year also the plague reigns in Geneva, and was not enough of that God sent to men, to punish him for their sins, but human malice also wanted to help him.

You must know that, in Geneva, there was a pestilential Hospital, to sequester the infected there in times of plague, and there was a Hospitaller who was a surgeon, a Prebster and other servants, all well paid because of the danger where they sat; and even women, who were called curesses, who truly believe, for they had good wages and stole just as valiantly: And the Hospitaller and the Prebest shared in their booty.

It happened that, by the grace of God, the plague subsided little by little, which made my gallants were not very happy, because people who make their profit from evil, do not willingly wish the good and would always have willingly maintained the evil.

It happened at this point that there was a kid in Geneva, of quite a good House, but addicted to all sorts of deceptions, who took the name of villain in praise, provided that his subtle wickedness was reputed. His name was Michel Caddo. In spite of his refinement, he fell into such poverty that he did not scrape up enough to live on, and he faked being a plague patient.

Immediately he was sent to the Lhospital, where he was treated promptly with julep wine or syrup, and seeing that this party could only last forty days, he decided to prolong it, for which reason he conspired with Lhospitalier, and they decided that all those that brought to Lhospital, instead of curing them, if they did not die quickly, they would kill them, by poison or otherwise.

After they were dead, they took the plague from the carbuncle that had been on the body and made it into powder, mixed with other drugs, from which they gave to drink to those stricken with the plague, pretending that it was a drink of healing. Not satisfied with that, after Caddo had finished his term at Lhospital, they powdered with this poison fine handkerchiefs, well worked, fine garters and the like, then they went through the town at night, dropping them hither and thither, and principally in front of the houses where there was something to bite for them, and for the curers and curesses: And not content with that rubbed the bolts of the doors.

This remained hidden for a space of time, but the Devil does not care so much to help himself to hide the sins of his minions, as to make them commit them. When Caddo had taken enough care of the night, he could not refrain from doing it during the day, except on a Lenten day, in the year 1530, he dropped a cone of his ointment in the middle of the rue de Coutance, thinking that no one noticed it, but someone saw it and carefully unfolded it, when the greatest stink in the world came out of it. A poor woman, fresh out of hospital, said: No mistake, gentlemen, this is done with the carbuncle of the plague. And each marveled and went to warn the Sindicas, who seized Caddo and interrogated him, giving him a strappado.

Immediately they sent to seize his accomplices, who were confronted and tortured. They all spoke as if through a pipe [i.e. gave the straight skinny], and didn't allow them to die, not all at once, not in a day. They were put on a cart, all around the city, tied to a column, naked to the waist: And to have the executioner, above the cart, fire blazing, where he warmed up his pincers, then when they were all feasting red, gave them, at each crossroads, a pinch, which lifted a piece of flesh from them.

Afterwards they were taken to Molard, where on a scaffold they had their heads cut off, then were quartered, and quarters with the heads were carried and tied to various places, except to the son of Lhospitalier, who because of his youth was allowed to keep his head. But he then confessed that he knew how to compose the paternal mixture well, and for this, as much for fear of the evil to come as by revenge for the past, he also lost his life.

[Estrapade: Kind of torture which consisted in being suspended, the feet and the hands tied to a cord, and suddenly precipitated a few feet from the ground, which exposed the patient to sharp pains by the weight of the body and to the danger of being crippled, if, not answering the questions of the judge, the latter prolonged or renewed the torture.]

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N.B. The commentator was very interested in this story. He points out that, at the time, there were numerous plague hospitals that were reimbursed based on the number of patients. He provides additional sources, but I ran out of steam. Those here who have French might enjoy the rest.

So the original text circulating on the net is a modernized paraphrase of the original. There are a number of errors - the chief one is mistaking the criminal Caddo to be a doctor. But, surprisingly, it's "truthy".
Posted by KBK 2022-04-09 20:51||   2022-04-09 20:51|| Front Page Top

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