#vaccine diary

[crazycatsiren]

They should invent a COVID vaccine that doesn't make your arm ache like a mofo.

[olivesjaw]

[externalmemorycomic]

[rosewind2007]

I’ve managed to combine two of my passions! I’m currently participating in a vaccine trial (new vaccine against Marburg Virus) and I have a (temporary) Murderbot/Gurathin tattoo for the Equinox event

This (being vaccinated in a MB/G heart tattoo) was not intentional—they usually vaccinate my left arm—but you know, reasons*

I have recommend The Murderbot Diaries to several scientists working on the trial

Spot the vaccination site!

*I have a real tattoo on the left arm, they preferred to inject in tattoo-less skin

[toastsnaffler]

forgot I signed up for NHS vaccine trials on my uni account but I'm still getting emails sent to my alumni acc lol. anyway should I take £3500 to let them give me a trial vaccine slash placebo and infect me with live salmonella..... 🫣

[kevin-the-bruyne]

I will be honest the amount I relate to house md from the tv sitcom house md as an adult is quite alarming and very much not the direction I wanted my adulthood to go.

If anything, practically I thought I’d be wilson (witty, smart but not the smartest, unable to make a marriage work) and I hoped to be like Cameron (pretty, smart, compassionate) or even Foreman (smart, pragmatic, insane amount of game) but no it’s house (gremlin)

[pawsandreflect]

one of my fave bands is playing locally next week so if we’re still here i’m gonna go walk my dog outside the venue and let her sniff everythingggggg so i can listen lmao

[power-chords]

The airflow situation at the Stone Pony is, um, Bad lmao. Like when I’m at any venue in NYC I can at least feel it moving, sometimes pretty powerfully (Brooklyn Bowl, for instance). The last time I was here was exactly a year ago, and it’s where I got COVID the first time. I am sitting in the tent in back for this round, where there’s fewer people and more ventilation, and since I’m not drinking and not jumping around I can just keep my mask on the whole time. But I am still keeping my fingers crossed against every other respiratory bug that’s been going around!

[mowgliproductions]

Mysterious WWII Cave Found in Palau’s Rock Islands

[moonmothmama]

ok i am NOT just seeing what i want to see the weird covid hives are definitely starting to fade

[outlikethat]

Doses of the updated vaccine, which targets the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant, are supposed to start being delivered to the provinces in early October.

According to Health Canada (and the CDC) "For people 6 months of age and older, all seasonal influenza vaccines, including live-attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), may be given at the same time as, or at any time before or after, administration of other vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines."

[eileenjaneway]

Husband left home to play boardgames and to let me lone with my writing, but yesterday I took vaccine bivalent (VIVA O SUS) and I'm so slow and dumb and aching that I can't write the book and the due date is closer and I'm only in the middle, I need more 25 to 30 pages, but I'm tired

[theredzelda]

Went to the doctor today. She gave me a candy to eat while doing my vaccine, cause I was too anxious. I felt like a little kid.

[toastsnaffler]

its actually nuts how missing a single vaccination has shaped my entire fucking life. like not only would I not be deaf if I had gotten it on time but I probs wouldn't have adhd either 🫣

[straycatboogie]

2023/01/22 English

BGM: フィッシュマンズ - いかれたBaby

Today was a day off. This morning I went to AEON and thought about various things as usual. I can remember this now. When I started attending the "danshu" meeting, a member said, "your eyes were dead when we met for the first time". I can understand it because I couldn't stop alcohol once when I was a fresh member. I had to stop it entirely and seek a brand new life of mine. In short, I lost the fuel or amulet of life, and it means that I lost the inner power to live forward my life. Like Souseki Natsume writes in his novel, Once I was really a "stray sheep". But I trusted the older members who go forward. I just looked at their backs... Now I can find another inner power. That's life.

Today I went to Yamasaki Sports Center to get vaccinated for the fifth time (it was Pfizer. I didn't choose it but I have gotten Pfizer every time). I can't drive a car so used a bus to arrive at the place. The bus moved as the schedule says so I went there smoothly and got it without any trouble. This smooth process is based on the workers there, so I feel thankful for the essential workers, and also the staff from the city office (some of them were the ones I already know because of the "danshu" meeting). Returning to my town, I bought my lunch at AEON. Tomorrow is also a day off so I want to relax.

Suddenly, I imagined whether the people who can't stop alcohol as the past me or the people who have serious trouble reading. I have no comment for them because their life is basically theirs. My comment would be irresponsible. I never say like "never drink anymore". If you can save drinking it so-so, and you allow your health would get harmed, then you can drink within your responsibility. But I... I was the person who made my life complete scrap. From that regret, I want to live my life more active and happier. In the 20s and 30s, the period I could "sew the seeds in my life", I just drank a lot. What a ridiculous life. Now I have no memory to remember and enjoy.

I read Hitoshi Nagai's "Summer holidays of Shota and the cat Insight". A really, truly profound one. About how different the real and dream would be, the fact that I'm here, communication, how death is... every problem in this book is the heritages from ancient and traditional philosophy, and the author tries to tell us the greatness of these problems directly to children, the true readers. If I met this book in my teenage days, I would think about learning philosophy seriously at a university. But now is not late for me I believe. I want to think about the problems I have had since my childhood, not trying to copy Nagai's theories (although copying someone's idea would be a good lesson). By the way, how thrilling this book's conversations are!

[creature-wizard]

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

They talk about a shadowy group of people supposedly manipulating everything behind the scenes. They might refer to them by terms such as globalists, bankers, international bankers, secret rulers of the world, the elite, the cabal, Kabbalists, Talmudists, satanists, satanic pedophiles, pedophiles, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, the Illuminati, the Babylonian Brotherhood, lizard people, Reptilians, Orions, regressives, regressive entities, Khazarians, Marxists, cultural Marxists, or leftists. Sometimes, very rarely, they'll just come right out and say "Jews."

They claim that the conspiracy has been working to conceal historical and spiritual truths from humanity.

They claim that the conspiracy uses stuff like food, entertainment, and medicine to control the masses. For example, "additives in food suppress our psychic abilities" or "Hollywood films contain subliminal messages" or "COVID vaccines were actually created to alter your DNA to make you more docile."

Also, claims that the conspiracy controls people via spiritual or technological implants, 5G, or alter programming, with or without explicit mention of Project Monarch (a conspiracy theory promoted by far right cranks such as Mark Philips and Fritz Springmeier, who used hypnosis to respectively convince Cathy O'Brien and Cisco Wheeler that they'd been put under mind control by a global satanic conspiracy).

They claim that this conspiracy is controlling the media, has fingers in every institution they disagree with, and is generally behind everything they disagree with. (EG, the conspiracy created the Catholic Church; that other New Ager they disagree with is actually controlled opposition, etc.)

They claim that the conspiracy is trying to keep people in fear.

They claim that the conspiracy harvests something from people. Blood and adrenochrome are common ones. Loosh is somewhat less common. Expect to see something else pop up eventually.

They claim that the conspiracy practices genetic engineering; EG, creating animal/human hybrids, using vaccines to genetically sever people's connection to God, etc.

They claim that true spiritual wisdom can be traced back to places like Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu.

They claim that world governments have secretly been in contact with extraterrestrials for years.

They appeal to known frauds and cranks, including but not limited to Erich Von Daniken, Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, David Wilcock, Graham Hancock, Jaime Maussan, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Fritz Springmeier, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Appeals to forged documents, including but not limited to the alleged diary of Admiral Richard Byrd, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and The Urantia Book.

Appeals to channeled information, such as that provided by Edgar Cayce, Carla Rueckert, or George Van Tassel.

"But all of this has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?"

Oh, it all comes from somewhere, all right, but the where isn't what most people imagine.

A lot of the stuff above is just a modern spin on the content of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Russian Jews. The Protocols itself was plagiarized from a political satire and incorporated a lot of the post-French Revolution conspiracy theories about Freemasons and Jews being behind the French Revolution. I wrote a summary of the conspiracy tropes found in The Protocols over here.

The stuff about Satanic sacrifices and the consumption of blood, adrenochrome, loosh, or whatever are simply just variations on blood libel, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews practice ritual cannibalism. Blood libel can be traced back to ancient Greece. (With the Greek version, I really can't help but notice the similarity to modern urban legends of gangsters kidnapping random people for initiation rituals.)

Many of these tropes can also be linked back to the early modern witch hunts. It was believed that witches sacrificed babies to Satan, practiced cannibalism, and put people under mind control by way of diabolical magic. It was also believed that some witches didn't even know they were witches; they'd go off to attend the Devil's Sabbath at night and come back in the morning without remembering a thing. In the late 20th century, this witch hunter's canard would be reinvented as the alter programming conspiracy theory when media such as the 1973 book Sibyl and its 1976 television adaptation put DID (note: the woman who inspired Sibyl did not have DID) into the public consciousness. For a more complete list of witch panic and blood libel tropes, I wrote a list over here.

Lemuria was a hypothetical landmass proposed to explain the presence of lemur fossils in Madagascar and India while being absent in continental Africa and the rest of Asia, because if lemurs evolved naturally, they wouldn't be in two separate places with no connection to each other. The discovery that India and Madagascar were once connected not only made the hypothesis obsolete, it precludes the existence of Lemuria.

The whole notion of Mu began with a horrendous mistranslation of the Troano manuscript. A man named Augustus Le Plongeon would link the mistranslation with the story of Atlantis, and use it to claim that Atlantis actually existed in the Americas. (For Plongeon, Mu and Atlantis were one and the same.) And then other people (like James Churchward) got their hands on the whole Mu thing, and put their own spins on it, and the rest is history.

Le Plongeon's ideas influence modern Atlantis mythology today; EG, the idea that it was in the Americas. Another guy who helped shape the modern Atlantis myth was Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American politician. Dude claimed that Atlanteans spread their oh-so-superior culture far and wide. He also claimed that Atlantis was the home of the Aryan people, because of course he did.

The idea that all of the world's wisdom can be traced back to Thoth/Hermes goes back to Hermeticism, a product of Greco-Egyptian syncretism. Hermeticism produced a fascinating body of mythology and an interesting way to consider the divine and its role in shaping human history, but that doesn't mean it was right. And the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a modern text that has fuck-all to do with ancient Hermeticism and more to do with HP Lovecraft.

This idea that the conspiracy uses pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for evil also has roots in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government, wanting to reserve real medicine for their soldiers, told the general populace that said medicine was the product of evil Jewish science and prescribed alternative healing modalities instead. (Said alternative healing modalities did not particularly work.) It also echoes the old conspiracy theories about Jews spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.

The idea that the conspiracy uses genetic manipulation to create subhuman beings or sever humanity from the divine is a permutation of the Nazi conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through race mixing. The idea of evil reptilian DNA goes back to the ancient serpent seed doctrine, which is indeed old, but no less pure hateful nonsense for it.

"But there's got to be somebody up to something rotten out there!"

Oh sure. But these people aren't skulking around in the shadows. They're acting pretty openly.

The Heritage Foundation has been working to push this country into Christofascism since the early 1970's. They're the ones responsible for the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Ronald Reagan. They're also the ones behind Project 2025, which intends to bring us deeper into Christofascism. (Among many other horrible things, they intend to outlaw trans people as "pornographic.")

The Seven Mountains Mandate is another movement pushing for Christofascism. They intend to seize the "seven spheres" of society, which include education, religion, family, business, government/military, arts/entertainment, and media.

There's also the ghoulish American Evangelicals who support Israel because they think that current events are going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus and cement the formation of a global Christofascist empire. Don't let their apparent support of Jews fool you - they believe that the good Jews will become Christians and the bad ones will go to hell.

All of these people are working toward monstrously horrific goals, but none of them are part of an ancient megaconspiracy. In fact, these are the kinds of people pushing the myth of the ancient megaconspiracy. From the witch hunts to Nazi Germany to the American Evangelical movement, if history has taught us anything, the people pushing the conspiracy theories are always the bad guys.