The Mythical Polio Narrative.

 

Preface:

   Internet discussion seems to be prone to false absolutism.  Either you buy the entire 'official story' without question, or you must be a True Believer in some backwards, paranoid, tinfoil hat crackpottery that puts sane people at risk.  Right?

   Wrong.  You can actually understand how viruses, immunity, and inoculation work, while strongly doubting the 'authorities' about which diseases are caused by certain pathogens, what treatment and preventative measures are called for, and if some diseases even exist!

   Further, when we observe patterns of error and misrepresentation in science and medicine, past and present, it doesn't always mean there is intentional deception for evil purposes.  Sometimes it may just be human nature to over-report the dramatic and sensational. 

   Since it's so difficult for some people to make sense of the maelstrom of information (and disinformation) of the current Global Panic-Demic, let's look back a few generations at the Doomsday Disease that set the template the folks in power are trying to apply now...

Polio:  The Official Story.

   The surviving GI Generation and older Boomers remember the Horrors of Polio.  First-wave GenXers heard the tales from our elders, saw the references in old movies, newsreels, and in US History textbooks. 

   It was a nightmare!  Even as America was rebuilding prosperity after WWII, it seemed that half the country was being laid to waste by the dreadful plague that had children hobbling around with leg braces and crutches, and thousands condemned to a Living Hell in the steampunk coffin known as the Iron Lung...

   But then secular saint Jonas Salk developed a vaccine, and the dread curse was over just like that.  SCIENCE!  Modern Medicine for the WIN!  How dare you even think of questioning the wisdom of vaccinating everybody for everything all the time from then on?!

Looking a Little Closer.

   The meaninglessness of case numbers, over-blowing the situation:  Even now, when you look up the polio epidemic, you'll get scary-looking case numbers, references to "paralysis", and images of crippled children and wards crammed full of dozens, maybe hundreds of poor souls vegetating in iron lungs.  Most people don't go beyond this first impression to learn that the bulk of polio cases were non-paralytic.  And even those who did get the braces, crutches, and iron lungs usually recovered.  Yes, some people were crippled long-term, or even died.  But the vast majority came through okay, if they got sick at all.  Reported polio deaths at the peak of the worst outbreak year came to 0.002% of the US population.  The actual threat never came close to the terror associated with it.

   The vaccine salvation...  Polio cases in America dropped by roughly 90% between the peak in 1952 and 1957, which is often cited as conclusive proof that Salk's vaccine, and vaccines in-general, work miracles.  But there's an obvious problem with this assertion.  The vaccine wasn't announced until '55, and was just entering wide distribution in '57...  AFTER THE EPIDEMIC WAS OVER. 

   So, if it wasn't the Magic Jab that vanquished the Polio Menace, what did?


Normal Course of Events:

   Only in Hollywood movies do viral epidemics sweep across nations and obliterate everyone.  In reality, they tend to run their course and essentially burn-out, returning to endemic levels when natural immunity develops in a sufficient percentage of the population to inhibit spread of the infection.  Given that the vast majority of people infected with polio don't even get sick, it's likely that enough people already had been immunized by contracting (and beating) the virus without even knowing it.


Diagnostic Bias and Reclassification:

   When the medical authorities declare an epidemic, enormous pressure falls upon doctors not to let cases of the plague slip through the cracks, lest the collective 'fight against the disease' be hampered!  So every patient who had any symptoms that might resemble some form of polio became a 'polio case'.   On top of that, media-induced paranoia will drive people with minor maladies they would likely have ignored otherwise to go to the doctor, who would err on the side of caution and list them as polio cases as well.  Lab tests don't help nearly as much as you'd think, since it is possible to have polio virus in your body while your symptoms are caused by something else entirely.

   Around the same time the Salk vaccine was introduced, the AMA did an 'about-face' on polio diagnostic guidelines.  Instead of encouraging doctors to label every case of the shakes as polio, they were instructed to diagnose what would previously have been polio cases as Acute Flaccid Paralysis, Aseptic Meningitis (for what was previously non-paralytic polio), and a long list of other diseases.  There wasn't so much a huge decline in sick people, as roughly the same number of sick people, just no longer labeled as 'polio victims'.

Conclusions:

   Does the fact that the vaccines didn't end the polio epidemic mean they don't work?  No.  Given that the early versions were based on straightforward immunization through inoculation, they probably did work.  They just weren't really needed.  And, thanks to the undue polio panic and a hell of a public relations effort, little thought was given to the cost/benefit of vaccination.

   Whether or not vaccines cause autism and other conditions which have been rising exponentially as the number and frequency of vaccinations has been increasing is a discussion I'll leave for another time.  But there is no denying that there is a cost associated with the polio vaccination programs, both in treasure and in fully-documented reactions and deaths.  Vaccine proponents argue that severe reactions are extremely rare, and it is worth the risk to protect the patient, and the population as a whole.

   Since the polio virus is actually a gut infection, primarily spread by ingestion of contaminated fecal residue, the much-vaunted "eradication of polio" is probably more a result of improving sanitation standards than vaccination programs.  (Plumbers work miracles, doctors get the credit.) 

   With the spread vectors of the virus virtually eliminated by the marvel of indoor plumbing and the plague status of the disease having been more imagination than contagion to begin-with, the cost of polio vaccination is balanced by almost no benefit whatsoever.

   Yet, not only is our indoctrination to the Mythical Polio Narrative cult so strong that we keep injecting generations of Americans with the pointless (and at least slightly dangerous) drug, but we're also enthusiastic about pumping an ever-expanding array of potions into people, so long as they are called "vaccines" (the term seems to have been re-defined far beyond basic inoculation) and endorsed by the same 'authorities' that pushed the polio narrative. 

 

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Let the Rebellion Begin.

 

   So the American republic has fallen, and Marxist criminals are wearing its bloody pelt in a macabre circus clown show pretending to be a government.  They've discarded all subtlety and are openly trying to destroy every vestige of traditional America and Western Civilization.  There's no reasoning or negotiating with them.  Anyone spewing nonsense about TRUMP 2024, Patriot Party, or other political countermeasures are either clinical dullards or actively working for the Enemy.  2020 proved once and for all that elections are pointless.  There is no Next Time.

   The US Military had a sworn duty to prevent this.  But the top brass are apparently in the thrall of the Global Marxists, just like the other politicians.  So that just leaves the original American militia.  Self-armed, disorganized, and thus highly unpredictable.  Much is made of the uncountable millions of firearms in the hands of an unknown legion of gun owners across America.  But keep in mind that this isn't some Third World backwater populated by Luddites.  When shit gets real, we can do WAY better than just chunking little pieces of lead at the tyrants, or cobbling together the odd IED.

   As I said last time, the open Internet isn't really the place to discuss refreshing the Tree of Liberty in the manner prescribed by Thomas Jefferson. 

   We might also want to keep in mind that a full-on civil war likely plays into the hands of the Global Marxists, no matter which side comes out on top.  That's probably why they seem hellbent to provoke one.  A fragmented America in smoldering ruins serves their purposes well.

   One thing we have in our favor is that the people who have stolen the machinery of American government are utterly incapable of operating it.  Kind of like kindergartners taking over their school bus.  They'll inevitably crash into a ditch or worse.

   We have to cope with the collapse of the criminal 'Government'.  Try not to get caught in the death throes of the cumbersome monster while doing what we can to hasten its demise.

   First thing we have to get through our heads is that THERE IS NO VALID LAW ANYMORE.  MAGA folks have been bragging about how they are peaceful and law-abiding while BLM and ANTIFA hunted whites for sport, burned cities, looted, and vandalized with glee.  Last ones playing by the rules gets curb-stomped in a street fight, and kinda' deserves it!

   Understand that the bulk of enforcement is LATERAL.  It's usually fairly easy to get around cops and Little Tin Gods. It is the people in the neighborhood who think it's their 'civic duty' to report violations to the (now illegitimate) authorities that get you busted.  Or the ones with a personal beef who use the cowardly tactic of ratting you out.  The former need to be convinced that they have no duty to a lawless faux-government.  The latter reintroduced to the tradition of Snitches Getting Stitches.  Both need to be excluded from participation in your beneficial activities until they become trustworthy.

   Make the Marxist state expend every bit of resources to ENFORCE their edicts.  Give them zero cooperation.  EVEN IF YOU HAPPEN TO AGREE WITH A PARTICULAR POLICY! 

   Avoid every bit of taxation you can on every level.  Starve the Government of income.  Work under the table.  Trade in kind, barter, and use other non-Federal Reserve mediums of exchange.  Grow / make your own.  Operate without official registration, permits, inspections, license, etc.  Support others doing so. 

   Take advantage of every payout you can milk from the 'Government'.  Just do not allow yourself to become dependent on this income. (Dump it into ammo stockpiles or something.)  Forget about your pride!  It's not about accepting handouts.  It's about draining the Marxist state of resources they would otherwise use to harm Americans!  Identify as a Black Hispanic Transsexual Pagan Refugee from Ork if that'll get you a bigger payment from Uncle Sucker.  We've been getting taxed half to death to support everyone else on Earth for generations.  Don't feel an iota of remorse for trying to get as much back as you can now before the system implodes!

   Create disinformation and confusion wherever you can.  Multiple identities.  Sock puppet accounts.  Some with stats and views that diverge far from your own.  Think of it as a data smokescreen.  Don't make it easy for the Enemy to know for sure where, who, what, or how many you are.

   This is a form of asymmetric warfare.  It's less about winning 'battles' than making the Enemy's 'victories' cripplingly expensive.  There are countless ways to do that.  Get creative people.

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OpSec in Post-Republic America.

   Okay.  Trump and his supposed White Hats have failed/betrayed us.  All this talk of TRUMP 2024 and / or a new political party is irrational since elections clearly do not matter anymore.  There is no political solution.  And the courts had their chance and refused to take it...

   So, having been robbed of the soap box, ballot box and the jury box, many Americans are beginning to call for the cartridge box.  After all, the primary point of the Second Amendment is to secure American liberty against tyranny.  Cuckservatives who were horrified by the "violence" of a minor folderol at the Capitol on January 6th might curl up into the fetal position and start sobbing at the notion of doing what the original American patriots did to found the nation, but there are a whole lot of enraged folks who aren't so lily-livered.

This was written over 20 years ago.
We may be outgrowing that stage.

   I'm not going to tell you to "hold the line" or "trust the PLAN", since the plan was evidently to keep us all pacified while the Marxists assassinated the republic.  There's hardly any point to having the right to keep and bear arms if you aren't willing to shoot some motherfuckers who need it desperately.  But don't be idiots.

   There are some contingency plans that should not be discussed on non-secure channels!  There is no real anonymity on the Internet.  Don't use it for any communications that will get you targeted by the 'Government'.  Seriously.  You'd do well to imagine the director of the FBI is looking over your shoulder as you type that BitChute or Gab comment.  (Hey, Chris. Hope Helen and the kids are well!)

   Also keep in-mind that, if you hold a militia meeting with more than three people, it's likely that at least one of them is reporting to GovCo.  Even if you've known the guys for years.  Remember that the whole Ruby Ridge tragedy started with the Feds trying to bully a local rube into being a spy for them.  Damned-near all 'terrorist' groups in America wind-up including (usually being run by) alphabet-soup agents provocateur.

   If you feel the need to do anything drastic, the smaller your circle of operators is, the better.  And a lone SOB who doesn't rat himself out playing games with the media or 'authorities' is damned hard to thwart.

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Bright Side of Post-Republic America.

 

   So, the BadOrangeMan gave us a few years' look at what the nation could be like if run by a reasonably competent executive who at least pretended to want America to succeed.  Pretty cool, wasn't it?  But there was one worrisome aspect to the MAGA heyday...

  We founded the TEOTWAWKI Doomstead back in the last century.  We thought it was a comfortable distance from the nearest Southern metropolis.  But the housing boom continued and our Podunk, rural county started being targeted by real estate developers who looked-out over the cow pastures and cornfields and envisioned oceans of ticky-tacky McMansions.  And, of course, or local Tin God politicians and bureaucrats imagined all those new residents paying taxes, not to mention the kickbacks from the aforementioned developers...

   So everything started getting paved.  The Sheriff's department went from Andy and Barney to a veritable standing army.  They started putting in municipal water.  Curbside garbage pickup.  All kinds of nonsense hillbillies have no use for.  Of course, the hicks wouldn't be around much longer.  Rising property value evaluations would soon drive their taxes up and them out!

   Thank goodness for the big economic crash in the Dubya/Obama terms!   Can't easily get rid of the pavement. But the water pipe they laid-out got recollected before it was buried.  (Really shoulda' swiped some of that. But didn't think of it at the time.) The garbage pickup thing evaporated too.  I had been afraid that our isolated doomstead was going to be surrounded by city slickers.  But it got to stay woods and cows and corn a while longer.

   With Trump's push for American energy independence and economic growth, it looked like the menace of Urban Sprawl might be on the horizon again, even though the Democrats had managed to turn the nearest metropolis into a ghetto over the past couple decades.  But, thanks to the fall of the republic and the inevitable collapse of civilized infrastructure that must follow, the whole Exburbanite thing will be untenable. 

   Unlike some men, I don't particularly want to watch the world burn... But, if I must, I'd prefer it was from a distance.

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Requiem for the Republic.

 

   There's been a good deal of discussion about how the organic American republic founded in 1776 was quietly replaced with a corporation in 1871 and reorganized in 1913.  All of that may be true.  But most Americans were able to believe they lived in a constitutional republic under Rule of Law until fairly recently.

   The political lynching of Richard Nixon in the '70s seemed to verify this.  Even a popular President (he won reelection by a massive landslide in '72) wasn't above the law, and could be laid-low for possibly covering-up a bit of petty political espionage.

   But the Stage IV cancer of corruption was clearly diagnosed with the Clinton impeachment at the end of the 20th Century...  Ken Starr spent four years investigating the Clintons, and must have been aware of a mountain of high crimes, misdemeanors, felonies, and freakin' capital offences committed by the diabolical power couple.  But the kickbacks, payoffs, fake investments, etc. were becoming pretty much Standard Operating Procedure for high-level government players by then, so nobody wanted to air that kind of dirty laundry.  As for the murders, child-trafficking, and even worse...  Either the players on both sides of the aisle were also into that scene, or these charges were deemed too outrageous to be pursued, even in the face of solid evidence.

   So, stepping around the aforementioned mountain of offenses, Starr presented Congress with evidence of crimes stemming from Bill Clinton's pathetic, middle-aged frat-boy antics.  Nevertheless, the charges were rock-solid.  Perjury. Obstruction of Justice.  Basically the same stuff they'd figuratively run Nixon out of town on a rail for.

   Nobody denied Clinton was guilty of the charges.  But he was the Marxist Golden Boy, so the media made light of it, the Senate weaseled around and let him off the hook.  Nevermind that an ordinary businessman charged with the same things, even if they stemmed from a sexual harassment case, would have been ruined and probably done time.  Apparently SOME people ARE above the law.  Which meant the whole concept of Equal Justice Under the Law, an underpinning of the American republic, was rotting-away.

   Then came Dubya, and 9-11, justifying an awful lot of Constitution-skirting.  Then the Marxist dash for the finish with Obama, when anyone trying to cite the rules was shouted-down as RACIST.  But it looked like we were saved when the Bombastic Orange SOB who at least claimed to want to Make America Great Again burst onto the scene...

   But, after an impressive term spent showing Americans what it would be like if the Federal executive was working in their favor rather than for foreign interests, and scoring a historic landslide reelection, Trump either showed his true colors or wussed-out in the 11th hour, handing the terrible power of Commander In-Chief we entrusted him with to a regime of Marxist criminals to be used against us.

   The 1776 charter of the USA gives only one justification for the existence of the government: To secure the rights of the people.  But the KamelJoe Regime is openly hostile to those rights.

   It cites only one source of just authority for the government: The consent of the governed.  The exact opposite of claiming power via a fraudulent election.

   So the inauguration of the KamelJoe Regime broke the charter.  Rendered it, the republic it initiated, and the Constitution that organized that republic, null and void.

   We can't even PRETEND the Constitution or Rule of Law still apply with a straight face anymore. 

   There is no longer any law.  Only what you can get away with.
   Last one playing by the rules is just a chump.

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Bitter Pill #3. They Aren't Our Boys Anymore.

 

   Back in the days before the election, when American conservatives were doing rolling rallies, someone posted a picture of a pickup flying both the "Thin Blue Line" flag supporting law enforcement, and the MOLON LABE (come and take them) flag for gun rights...  Along with the caption "Don't they know WHO will be coming to take them?!"

   Modern American patriots like to think of themselves as law-abiding supporters of the police and military.  After all, the cops and soldiers are enduring risk, hardship, and making sacrifices in service of our republic.  They deserve some respect.

   But the republic is no more.  The nominal Commander In-Chief is a Marxist criminal operating without consent of the governed.  Nothing he orders the military to do will be for the good of Americans. 

   The corruption has infested the whole of American government.  That's why ANTIFA, BLM, and random packs of feral scum can burn, loot, and murder with nigh impunity, but peaceable citizens trying to open their businesses, show their faces in public, may be subject to violent attack by law enforcement.

   If you're an LEO or in the military, GTFO ASAP!  Before the unworthy vermin who now control the government issue orders you know damned-well better than to obey.  Stalin, Mao, and the rest of history's worst monsters wouldn't have been able to make their bloody marks if not for obedient enforcers.

   Americans need to remember that the late republic was created by patriots who opposed the "Lawful Authority" of their time.  If we're going to save America from the Marxists and rebuild the nation, we have to be willing to do the same.

Like we used to say: "Better dead than red."

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Bitter Pill #2. Not Your Flag Anymore.

 

   We were little more than toddlers when they trained us to stand reverently facing the Red, White, and Blue while reciting a pseudo-prayer in the classroom morning ritual.  Many of us have seen friends and kin carried to their final resting places with the Star-Spangled Banner draped over their coffins.  It's been a symbol of the American people, heroism, and freedom for generations...

   And now it is an intellectual property of the Marxist usurpers.  We wish they were honest enough to adopt the Hammer & Sickle, Red Star, or UN Globe flag.  But I doubt they are that stupid.  The politicians issuing orders to strip you of your rights and property will be standing in front of  Old Glory as they do it.  The goons carrying out those orders will wear uniforms with Stars & Stripes patches on them.  The judges sentencing you to prisons, reeducation camps, and involuntary 'medical' procedures will have the flag hanging in their courtrooms.  (Probably with a gold fringe, but that's a whole 'nuther hornet's nest right there!)

   It's a horribly bitter pill to choke on.  But the republic for which it stood is defunct.  Don't let the lifelong conditioning to love and respect the SYMBOL of what we lost drive you to submit to tyranny.  This isn't a classic vampire movie.  The Devil has no difficulty holding a cross, and Marxists have no problem operating under the colors of the American Flag.

   Meanwhile, if you need a flag to rally around, might I suggest some alternatives...

Distress USA

   Popular on social media now.  Upside-down flags represent dire distress.  I suppose it doesn't get much more dire than demise.  

Betsy Ross
   Though the story of Ross designing this one is a bit sketchy, it is akin to flags flown by the original American patriots.

Gadsden

   Another original American patriot design.  The Timber Rattler depicted is known for being a fairly non-aggressive snake that will only strike people if provoked.  But can seriously fuck you up if threatened.

Bonnie Blue

   Early flag of Southern secession.  (Can't really call it that this time, since you can't secede from a republic that no longer exists.)  Indicative of breaking away from tyrannical central authority.  Kind of subtle, since most folks don't know it and may think the "Lone Star" means you're Texan.

   Of course, we southerners have our favorite symbol of rebellion against Washington tyranny, despite it being frequently usurped an maligned... But we're way past giving a damn about offending anyone.

   Maybe someday, after the Marxist regimes have passed, we can reclaim the symbol of the lost republic.  But for now, we have got to steel ourselves to the fact that it is firmly in enemy hands, and be willing to act against those operating under it.

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