@MC - I read some of your posts on Bryam Bridles substack. Glad to see that all Canadian professors aren't brain washed state cultists! Regarding McGill, I have had debates with Joe Schwartz who is clearly in bed with and an apologist for agrichem companies, notably Bayer, and has written a number of 'fantacy' articles claiming gyphosate is perfectly "safe and effective." He clearly stays away from the shikimate debate (which exists in plants, fungi and bacteria and which is disrupted by glyphosate) and who ignores the more than $10 billion in bonds posted by the company to handle current and (some) future liability claims now in US courts.
I am heartened by the fact that McGill still has professors that actually follow the science and are not coporate captured. Sad that you are leaving but fully undestandable!
My area of focus is the microbiome (human and soil). I refused to get jabbed until we had more than 2 months data when the vaccines were first forced on people and the longer I wait, the more data piles up showing just how harmful they are, especially on the essential innate immune system which is home to NK cells and a host of other mechanisms that have evolved to kill pathogenic bacteria and viruses. And based on growing evidence, these vaccines appear to disable these first line defenders which is why the jabbed get covid repeatedly. On a personal note, I got covid from a quadruple vaxxed physician friend and his wife (3x jabbed). I nebulized with a normalized mixture of hydrogen peroxide and povalone iodine hourly for the first 2 days, had mild symptom and would never have know I had anything other than a mild cold if I had not been informed of a positive test by my infector. He and his wife on the other hand, got quite sick. So much for "safe and effective" parroted by our health dictators!
Too bad more folks didn't make the effort to understand their immune systems and undertand the work of people like Dr Bryam Bridle, Robert Malone, Peter McCullough etc. better. If they had they wouldn't have been so glib about injecting themselves and their children with highly inflammatory and toxic spike proteins that as we have learned the hard way are worse than useless in fighting viral variants!
I read most of the books mentioned here including the Decameron. It should be required reading. But people can't be bothered to even read up on masks. We're absurdly shallow and our mettle astonishingly weak.
How do you think 'it will get worse' manifest itself?
The historical references put much that is happening now in context. The Decameron passage is revealing of the level of death in the 14th century. Thanks for your intelligent reflections and wise assessments.
Thanks. And the Decameron is useful because it highlights that while different social approaches were adopted in the hopes of escaping the plague, all of them failed. There is a deep and startling hubris currently structuring our society; the idea that Science (or better yet, scientism) can solve all problems or issues so long as the right experts are consulted and the right policies enacted. It never occurs to people who uphold this belief that they can be entirely wrong, that maybe they are not experts in the way they need to be experts, and that policies may have no benefit. The lack of humility, and then negation of a broader range of expertise when assessing or understanding the present moment is the hallmark of an authoritarian system in crisis. I fear the damage to our institutions may be permanent, and the only way to undo the damage is to audit those in power and impeach them. They have so profoundly abused the public trust that even family members no longer trust each other. And yet our institutions lack the capability of doing what is required.
I agree with your thoughts here. The lack of honesty and humility is noticeable. But what is very disturbing is the closed-mindedness of the universities, places where dialogue, debate, and reasoned discussion are supposed to operate. I find that the universities have shown themselves to be the most authoritarian in the covid chronicles. I am at a loss. This is why I appreciate your penetrating analyses of the state of higher education. What is happening to our universities? There is an ethical nihilism afoot.
I single out McGill University and the University of Toronto. In my eyes, they failed. There are others of course, but these are allegedly our top two universities in the country.
@MC - I read some of your posts on Bryam Bridles substack. Glad to see that all Canadian professors aren't brain washed state cultists! Regarding McGill, I have had debates with Joe Schwartz who is clearly in bed with and an apologist for agrichem companies, notably Bayer, and has written a number of 'fantacy' articles claiming gyphosate is perfectly "safe and effective." He clearly stays away from the shikimate debate (which exists in plants, fungi and bacteria and which is disrupted by glyphosate) and who ignores the more than $10 billion in bonds posted by the company to handle current and (some) future liability claims now in US courts.
I am heartened by the fact that McGill still has professors that actually follow the science and are not coporate captured. Sad that you are leaving but fully undestandable!
My area of focus is the microbiome (human and soil). I refused to get jabbed until we had more than 2 months data when the vaccines were first forced on people and the longer I wait, the more data piles up showing just how harmful they are, especially on the essential innate immune system which is home to NK cells and a host of other mechanisms that have evolved to kill pathogenic bacteria and viruses. And based on growing evidence, these vaccines appear to disable these first line defenders which is why the jabbed get covid repeatedly. On a personal note, I got covid from a quadruple vaxxed physician friend and his wife (3x jabbed). I nebulized with a normalized mixture of hydrogen peroxide and povalone iodine hourly for the first 2 days, had mild symptom and would never have know I had anything other than a mild cold if I had not been informed of a positive test by my infector. He and his wife on the other hand, got quite sick. So much for "safe and effective" parroted by our health dictators!
Too bad more folks didn't make the effort to understand their immune systems and undertand the work of people like Dr Bryam Bridle, Robert Malone, Peter McCullough etc. better. If they had they wouldn't have been so glib about injecting themselves and their children with highly inflammatory and toxic spike proteins that as we have learned the hard way are worse than useless in fighting viral variants!
I read most of the books mentioned here including the Decameron. It should be required reading. But people can't be bothered to even read up on masks. We're absurdly shallow and our mettle astonishingly weak.
How do you think 'it will get worse' manifest itself?
The historical references put much that is happening now in context. The Decameron passage is revealing of the level of death in the 14th century. Thanks for your intelligent reflections and wise assessments.
Thanks. And the Decameron is useful because it highlights that while different social approaches were adopted in the hopes of escaping the plague, all of them failed. There is a deep and startling hubris currently structuring our society; the idea that Science (or better yet, scientism) can solve all problems or issues so long as the right experts are consulted and the right policies enacted. It never occurs to people who uphold this belief that they can be entirely wrong, that maybe they are not experts in the way they need to be experts, and that policies may have no benefit. The lack of humility, and then negation of a broader range of expertise when assessing or understanding the present moment is the hallmark of an authoritarian system in crisis. I fear the damage to our institutions may be permanent, and the only way to undo the damage is to audit those in power and impeach them. They have so profoundly abused the public trust that even family members no longer trust each other. And yet our institutions lack the capability of doing what is required.
I agree with your thoughts here. The lack of honesty and humility is noticeable. But what is very disturbing is the closed-mindedness of the universities, places where dialogue, debate, and reasoned discussion are supposed to operate. I find that the universities have shown themselves to be the most authoritarian in the covid chronicles. I am at a loss. This is why I appreciate your penetrating analyses of the state of higher education. What is happening to our universities? There is an ethical nihilism afoot.
I single out McGill University and the University of Toronto. In my eyes, they failed. There are others of course, but these are allegedly our top two universities in the country.