Mass psychogenic illness is “the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic [etiology].”
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Coronavirus corner
While I have nothing new to add concerning the Coronavirus hoax, readers and commenters might. So this space is reserved for that purpose.
We had a trip planned to Glacier Bay, Alaska this coming July. We were informed by the hotel in Gustavson this morning that the area will be closed for the entirety of 2020. This can only mean that the people who did this to us do not plan to just quit and let things go back to normal after April. They mean to hurt us, and continue hurting us until letting us up will seem a time to give thanks. Even when they do let up, keep in mind that precedent established, they can do this again any time they like.
Who will save us from those who want to save us?
Have you ever known someone so arrogant, dismissive and smug as to be intolerable company? We all have. I could name two here but it would be a cheap shot, and each would say they never come near this website, even as one is known to do so. (The link there is, I suppose, a cheap shot. This guy is intolerable.) The other, long retired from a high perch in Montana broadcasting, is not Mathis. Don’t go there.
The reason I bring this up is that the attitude, the mask they wear for the world, hides deep insecurity. These people are extremely unsure of themselves, and so use dismissive arrogance as a defense mechanism. Their group of friends usually consists of admirers, and in the case of the one I am thinking of who is also a Montana blogger, a fellow writer so deeply stupid as to be immune from any criticism. He’s textbook Dunning-Krueger, beyond reach. That is the kind of support they bring, and detractors there are quickly banned or dismissed.
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Hail Belarus!
I linked to this Google document to the left via a report titled Evidence that the COVID 19 pandemic is false, prepared by Kevin Galalae, with due credit given (Galalae appears to suffer from personal integrity) to a “Swiss Doctor,” who prepared a lengthy report distributed in 19 languages called Facts About Covid-19. Both documents are full of important links and are incredibly valuable resources. The Swiss document opens with a reference to a book by Camus, as follows:
“The only means to fight the plague is honesty.” Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
What Independent Judiciary?
Elections are no longer “my thing,” but I did want share the latest developments in a lawsuit challenging Montana’s election law pertaining to petition requirements for new political parties. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/montana-ballot-access-decision-suppresses-green-party-voters/ The article as it appears in CounterPunch:
APRIL 8, 2020
Montana Ballot Access Decision Suppresses Green Party Voters
by STEVE KELLY
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court held that unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Again in 1970, citing the 1969 Illinois case, the SCOTUS struck down New York’s distribution requirements. Distribution requirements give voters in some geographical areas more power than voters residing in other areas in blatant disregard for a bedrock democratic principle: “one person, one vote.”
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The Economist = 56.
Any virus will do
Note to readers: I am officially backing away from this post until I have more and better information. There are people of sound mind and good reasoning skills on both sides of the “virus” issue. I have to get up to speed, and it may take weeks or months.
Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute is someone I enjoy listening to – he does very thoughtful interviews. Previously I linked to him, perhaps just in the comments, regarding mathematical proof that Darwinian evolution is impossible. (Species adapt, but do not become other species – this is all that Darwin discovered).
This interview is with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, a medical professor. I learned quite a bit, and have my doubts about some of it. It is 35 minutes, and as always, readers are wandering off. I get that. But a few will stay and watch.
Coup d’état.
From the Chris Spivey blog:
“As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.
The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak.
Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID” Source: Status of Covid-19, High Consequence Infectious Diseases, Gov.UK)
Oxford study suggest virus has already run its course
This article features a study done by a group headed by Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford theoretical epidemiologist. It concludes that the Coronavirus had already reached Great Britain in December of 2019, and that by mid-January half the population had been infected. Because it is a mild bug, there were no rushes to hospitals or pressure on the health care system. Gupta and her group our now going to do research in the general population to find out what percentage had it and got over it, and are now immune. If, as she suggests, immunity has reached 50%, then the pandemic is over.
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Alliance sues over bull trout in St. Mary Diversion
Over 20 years ago a small group of clean water activists petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list bull trout as a threatened species. The native char had lost over half of its habitat and populations were isolated and declining range-wide.
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Piece of Mindful 