Sailing to Motuihe Island
Because I'm *^&%$-ing Tired of Writing About Covid Vaccines
I keep getting dragged into covid vaccine commentary because it’s the “red meat” that my audience seems to enjoy, but the fact is that other people handle this oh so much better. I am not a data analyst. Just a lowly mycologist with microbiology and lab experience that collided with personal experience in onco-immunology and an anarcho-capitalist belief system and some luck. That is what allowed me to act on my ideas to start a small company producing an old anti-cancer vaccine. Therefore, my main insights into the CV debacle are this:
Big Pharma has been corrupt for decades and it could never be otherwise, because top-down central controls don’t work. Hopefully we are at the apex, but “reform” is not and never will be possible. The FDA has killed millions of people over the decades. But because it was through denial of products rather than forcing them, you didn’t notice. You agreed with that because you thought it was OK that Big Gubmint Daddy and Mummy should have the right to tell you what to do and keep you from thinking for yourself. Only when it got to the point that it was denial of long-ago *approved* products, and forcing of insufficiently tested novel ones, did you normies begin to wake the fuck up. Facts. What we really need to do is Burn The Fucking System to the Ground — not literally of course. It’s sufficient and preferable to supplant it with something superior. In fact, it has to be that way if it’s going to work. I’ll be writing more about the hows and whys of this soon, but here are some starting ideas. Numbers 2, 3, and 5 are crucial.
Nothing larger than 15 um should be in the vaccines, yet that appears to be the case. If I, as a one woman business producing an injectable product, know enough to know this, and have the technical means to to accomplish it, surely a company with hundreds of billions in revenue can handle it. But instead, businesses such as mine get shut down, without having ever harmed a single person, and with no regulator ever visiting the laboratory. Meanwhile, a company paying the largest criminal fine in history operates with impunity continuing to harm millions, and likely doing so deliberately.
To those of you in love with “democracy”, “institutions”, “reform” and “rebuilding” and the rest of the statist claptrap, and you “can’t believe this is happening.” Believe it. And ask yourselves: how is this type of system working for you, as opposed to the “Wild West” 1800s you’ve been hectoring about for decades, where the greatest danger was a used car salesman type peddling some literal snake oil on the side of the road? Are you one of the people who has though consumers need to be “protected” from “snake oil” and thinking for themselves? Then you have been the problem. You are what got us here.
Which is worse, objectively speaking? Who has done more damage? Used car salesmen types selling herbs and homeopathy, or giant corporations who have been coddled and fed by the regulatory system for 7 decades? You think I’m joking? I’m serious. You think you are going to “reform” and “rebuild” institutions after this? You think this way because you haven’t yet come to grips with what you are dealing with. That’s why the powers that be are trying to grab complete control of all aspects of society to build a global totalitarian system that is worse than anything humanity has ever seen before. It’s either that, or else. It’s either them, or us. They know this. You are the one who is hesitating and can’t come to grips with it. So get over it. Come to terms with the reality that this is the evil we’re facing, and get ready for it.
Onwards to the fun stuff.
Here are some pictures of my excursion to Motuihe Island while I was living in NZ. I used to live in a little suburb of Auckland called Bucklands Beach. You can check it out on google maps.
Two years ago I learned to sail and bought a little dinghy. Last year I strapped my camping equipment in dry bags to the dinghy, set off from Bucklands Beach, and sailed five miles over the harbor to Motuihe Island, which is only accessible now by private boat.
You can see my dinghy in a couple of these pictures (with the sail wrapped around the mast). Yes, it’s small.
I also include a screen-cap of my path to the island. I was traveling upwind so I had to tack back and forth. Those of you with sailing knowledge can see that I wasn’t trimmed properly, so it took about 5 hours!
Coming back two days later was faster: only about an hour downwind. Great times over on the island. No power supply. Just a few humans and nature. NZ has a lot of mammalian pests that have destroyed native wildlife, and this island is in the process of being restored. Many native bird species live on this island that cannot survive on the “mainland.” Great fun exploring for a couple of days.
Kind of a crazy thing to do as a new sailor, but I was safe about it, checking the forecast and weather windows obsessively. I had two forms of communication and it was basically impossible to sink the thing because it was hollow plastic.
All's well that ends well.
I sold the dinghy before I left NZ and bought a new one here in the US.
The implicit message? YOU are in charge of your life. The protective state is an illusion. GO!
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