An interesting genetic curiosity - the son of this Mamun has a purely "Nordic" appearance. Although it may get darker with time.

https://mtdata.ru/u28/photoD145/20796977508-0/original.jpg

Nikki Haley (Nikki Randhawa before marriage) is Indian Sikh, and looks like a stereotypical American housewife (i.e. Italian-American, Jewish-American, Greek-American housewives).

This is the Indians from latitude 25-35° can have light skin when not in summer.

Although if you have met Indian people in real life, you notice the eyes (same also with Iranians, Armenians, etc) is different to European people, and Haley has a kind of stereotypical Indian eyes.
https://i.imgur.com/0rJFxsd.jpg

But her (I guess half-India) daughter looks more stereotypical European face, with stereotypical Indian skin.

https://www.instagram.com/p/COMGNo_h3KY/

Replies: @Dmitry, @melanf, @snapple

It's the Indian facial features, not only eye and hair color (which may be dyed). Mamun:

https://vestikavkaza.ru/upload/fbig/nvk/2015_Jun/Margarita-Mamun-%E2%80%93-chempionka-Evroigr-v-uprazhnenii-s-obruchem-1.jpg

https://s2.cdn.teleprogramma.pro/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/762a891297b270de0941b4f42c23526a.jpg

Roma:

https://www.cesr.org/sites/default/files/roma_woman_and_child_osce.jpg

Mamun, of course, has the physique of an Olympic athlete.

You are correct that there is a resemblance to Zagitova.

Replies: @melanf, @Coconuts

Wholly f*cking jeesus chryst, what a lovely specimen, thanks mate. Gonna be on the look out for the Slav-Indian mix.

Replies: @AP, @FerW

She looks Mediterranean

Never did like the way Raph holds his sais. When you have so few fingers, it would be a shame to lose one to someone's sword.

A nice reminder of a long discussion that I had with Bashibusuk a year or two ago about mushroom hunting. If you're still out there Bashi, why not do an occasional Thorfinnsson and let us know how you're doing?

You are not hiking in the right forests. Those aren't mushrooms....

THIS is a MUSHROOM!

PEACE 😇

 
https://thedaleygator.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/1630507640_07ba6y8uyx.jpg

I got some sentences about the Mongolian high pressure system weakening (I think) but I didn't get where that is. Chara Sands near Irkutsk?

Visiting Southern Siberia is definitely another item in my bucket list. The pictures I've seen of the Altai area and the Lake Baikal region are astounding. But I'll have to be careful with the mosquitoes if I go in the summer, I guess. They love me as much as I hate them.

Socialist Patriarchy of Lytsk FTW!
https://s1.livelib.ru/boocover/1000478877/200/5516/boocover.jpg

Should have denounced USSR as a pure entirely criminal regime too with its mandatory vaccinations from all the diseases at the time ;)

Replies: @Yellowface Anon

It's obvious, the thievish no-goodniks need to be found and brought to justice.

As to what I'm happy about, it's related to Ukraine's ability to maintain its own separate course, to have its decisions made at the ground level, not in some dank corner within the Kremlin. It's good to celebrate your independence at least once a year, like the 4th of July in the US, and celebrate the Ukrainians did - the parades and concerts were really well done - Slava Ukraini!

Replies: @JL

https://www.rt.com/russia/533050-kaljulaid-dont-invest-ukraine/

Looks very similar to Northern Arizona. We do have some lakes up north, with large rocky shorelines.

https://c7.alamy.com/comp/PRXDMY/altai-russia-august-5-2010-a-boy-sheep-shepherds-son-sits-on-rocks-in-mountains-PRXDMY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/mR95pkX.jpg

I guess over time Russia would need to recruit a large number of countries to recognize the change, as the unrecognized status keeps causing constant issues, and the more countries recognize it, the fewer problems it’s going to cause. Of course that one country, especially such a poor and underdeveloped one as Afghanistan, makes basically no difference, but it’s worth enough to make it a disadvantage.

This is called a false dichtomy. The vaccine itself does not protect anyone – the vaccine only strengthens the “natural immunity”
 

Replies: @melanf

Off the top of my head, they do not provide a very good immunity for the recipient, including the first version but also trouble with easily appearing mutants; what immunity is conferred doesn't last very long; the recipient can still spread the disease; and they appear somewhat unsafe in themselves.

Replies: @melanf

These particular vaccines appear to have many flaws.

Replies: @melanf

These vaccines are just not great, for whatever reason. (Could be that the problem is just too difficult.) There are so many caveats by now that you may ask whether they qualify for the title in the first place.

They probably should focus on developing a more effective next generation.

If it in the end is just the flu (... or close enough ...), then that's presumably futile as well. Learn to live with Corona-chan like we have learned to live with its many predecessors.

Replies: @melanf, @A123

In last six weeks Russia doubled its completed vaccination from 11% at the end of June to 22%. It took over six months to get the first 10%. Clearly the production rate of the vaccines picked up. Introducing the Sputnik Light gimmick to circumvent the difficulties with the production of the 2nd dose of the Sputnik V also helped at least on paper.

If Russia was able to produce 10-20 million doses by January as it was talked about in October 2020 the 10% would have been vaccinated by the end of February. Instead the campaign of bad mouthing of Western and mRNA, in particular, vaccines was launched which naturally reduced enthusiasm for vaccination altogether among Russians which, IMO, it was the outcome that Kremlin wanted to cover up vaccine shortage.

Replies: @melanf

... and so all the fearmongering continues.

The current generation of vaccines works much less effectively against the delta strain than against previous strains. So it is better to wear a mask on public transport even after vaccination
 

Replies: @Yellowface Anon, @melanf, @AP

I didn't get the impression utu was any kind of anti-vaxxer, considering he's spent the past year excoriating our benevolent overlord for giving people like Mike Whitney a voice. I guess it's specifically about Sputnik's effectiveness? I have no opinion (or interest, really) in the matter, but it did come out incredibly (and suspiciously) early after the pandemic.

Replies: @melanf

Poor Soviet prewar training was a choice and one exacerbated by the brilliant decision to liquidate much of the officer corps. The army was undergoing rapid expansion during this time, but the even more rapidly expanding German Army (in relative terms) found the time to conduct training.

It's true that the educational and cultural level of Soviet troops was lower than the Germans, but literacy was close to universal in younger Soviet cohorts by this time.

Doctrine is essential to all military organizations. To quote from Tully and Parshall:

At its simplest, doctrine is the body of formal knowledge that tells a fighting force how it is expected to fight. Strictly speaking, doctrine is bigger than tactics, in that doctrine encompasses not only the means for actually handling forces in battle, but also augments it with a command structure and communications procedures that ensure that its directives are carried out. Wayne Hughes, whose book on naval tactics is probably the best modern offering in the field, describes doctrine as the intellectual glue that holds tactics together. It is more than what is written in the manual; it is the corpus of “guiding principles that warriors believe in and act on.”25

The development of doctrine is the natural imperative of any military trying to rise above the level of being merely an armed mob. It is an essential means by which militaries compensate for the negatives of warfare by building a certain measure of automatic behavior into the organization. Indeed, in the terrible crucible of combat, under the enormous pressures created by mass violence, doctrine is sometimes the only thing that holds forces together and allows them to continue fighting. By setting out a coherent set of tactical goals, units can continue to operate even if the chain of command is disrupted or destroyed.

From the perspective of command, doctrine pays dividends in that it allows the commander to focus on “The Big Picture.” Leaders can be secure in the knowledge that their forces will, to a certain extent, be able to “think” for themselves and thereby behave with some manner of predictability. The ability to impose any sort of predictability on the chaos of warfare is a commodity to be treasured. It is for this reason that militaries pour huge amounts of time and money into creating combat doctrine and training their forces to follow it.
 

Photos of women probably will help accentuate and clarify this point :)

Well, they certainly don't look like Turks at least, but distinctly Asian/Mongolic, language aside.

Anyway, are there any statisics on raw alcohol consumption by region to compare regional murder rates with? The reason I ask is that it's well known that there is an obvious baseline correlation, but if they stand out even considering that, the other contributing factors would be interesting to delve into.

Replies: @SIMP simp

That may be true about Sputnik given that it is a regular flu vaccine: very few side effects but low effectiveness. In that case why bother?

The MRNA shots are not really vaccines: they are an experimental genetic treatment that has been around for decades with minimal results against much harsher diseases. People took them out of desperation. To repackage MRNA as a corona killer was rather daring, it may work to some extent, but the story has been evolving and changing so many times that the risk - by definition - is high.

You take risk if the danger or reward are high. If the danger is low, e.g. under 18 have 99.997% survival of corona, 18-30 healthy almost as good, it simply makes no sense to risk headaches, heart and neurological issues, etc...

If by vaccinating young people make the lives of old and sick safer, they should be compensated. Are they? Don't we have a market system? But I haven't seen the elderly offering money, free rent, assets, to pay more in taxes,etc... Why are the young supposed to care if the old are not? The old are the selfish ones here.

Replies: @Ultrafart the Brave, @Ultrafart the Brave

In Russia, with 19 million vaccinated with two doses, anti-vaccinators can not even give real (not fake) examples of people who were vaccinated, but died from covid.
 

Hence my clarification that it preferably not be as part of large collectives.

Replies: @Bashibuzuk

https://fablesdelafontaine.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/20100605035749the_fox_and_the_grapes_-_project_gutenberg_etext_19994.jpg

So Academician Zverev, twice decorated by the EusFed government is a charlatan in your opinion?

С 1985 года работает в НИИ вирусных препаратов имени О. Г. Анджапаридзе РАМН, пройдя путь от старшего научного сотрудника до директора. 15 мая 1995 года защитил докторскую диссертацию «Структура гена CD4-рецептора и изучение антивирусного действия рекомбинантных форм CD4» (официальные оппоненты А. А. Краевский, В. З. Тарантул и Л. В. Урываев). В 2005 году проведена реорганизация НИИ вакцин и сывороток имени И. И. Мечникова РАМН в форме присоединения к нему НИИ вирусных препаратов имени О. Г. Анджапаридзе РАМН.

С 2005 года по настоящее время возглавляет объединённый институт[2].

Возглавляет кафедру микробиологии, вирусологии и иммунологии медико-профилактического факультета Сеченовского университета[3].

12 февраля 1999 года избран членом-корреспондентом РАМН, 6 апреля 2002 года — академиком РАМН. 30 сентября 2013 года стал академиком РАН (в рамках присоединения РАМН и РАСХН к РАН).
 

Since 1985 he has been working at the O. G. Andzhaparidze Research Institute of Viral Preparations of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, having worked his way up from a senior researcher to a director. On May 15, 1995 he defended his doctoral dissertation "The structure of the CD4 receptor gene and the study of the antiviral action of recombinant forms of CD4" (official opponents A. Kraevsky, V. Z. Tarantul and L. V. Uryvaev). In 2005, the reorganization of the II Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences was carried out in the form of joining the Research Institute of Viral Preparations named after O. G. Andzhaparidze of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

From 2005 to the present, he is the head of the joint institute [2].

Head of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Sechenov University [3].

On February 12, 1999, he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, on April 6, 2002 - an academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. On September 30, 2013 he became an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (within the framework of the accession of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences to the Russian Academy of Sciences).

 

It would be interesting to see what his Hirsch score is. Does he have any publications in serious journals? (preferably not as part of huge collectives). There is a class of people in Russia who excel in amassing credentials without doing anything, would be instructive to see if Zverev is one of them.

Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @melanf

about Zverev
https://pikabu.ru/story/virusolog_s_mirovyim_imenem_o_vaktsinatsii_8320459?cid=205155032

Replies: @Bashibuzuk, @Anatoly Karlin

Nothing works 100% and the delta strain is a much milder version of corona. Your search for a perfect, risk-less life at the expense of healthy and young (even children) is indeed an extreme selfishness. How about the people who feel at risk even after being vaccinated leave the society, shut the door behind themselves and live in isolation? Let the rest of us get on with our lives.

If you still think that lockdowns and masks have anything to do with the percentage of vaccinated you have not been paying attention. Are you ready for your booster shot this fall? And next year? And the year after?

The vaccine reduces the likelihood of getting sick/dying, but it does not give a 100% guarantee.
 

However, that statement is also demonstrably false, and alarmingly so.

The Corona Chan "vaccines" do not "reduce the likelihood of getting sick/dying" - they increase the risk of dying by a factor of x40 if you are old, and x260 if you are young. Just ask the Norwegians and the Israelis (and everyone else in every nation where these experimental concoctions have been rolled out)...

https://anti-empire.com/norways-health-authority-says-further-use-of-astrazeneca-riskier-than-covid-recommends-pulling-vaccine-permanently/

https://www.unz.com/gatzmon/the-israeli-people-committees-april-report-on-the-lethal-impact-of-vaccinations/

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/experimental-vaccine-death-rate-for-israels-elderly-40-times-higher-than-covid-19-deaths-researchers

https://freenations.net/record-vaccine-deaths-risk-greater-than-covid-governments-manipulate-data-illegal-tracking-of-vaccinated-illegal-propaganda-covid-fascists-revealed/

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-02-family-doctor-extreme-side-effects-moderna-jab.html

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-01-depopulation-alert-shocking-new-study-reveals-covid-vaccine-terminates-4-out-of-5-pregnancies-via-spontaneous-abortions.html

While on the subject, let's not overlook the indisputable fact, from the FDA's and the CDC's own data, that the Corona Chan "vaccines" have killed more people in just 6 months than all other vaccines combined over the last 30 years!

Especially against the delta strain, against which all vaccines work less effectively.

 

1. The emphasis on the "deadliness" of the "deadly Delta variant" implied by the phrase "especially against the delta strain" is very misleading, because the "deadly Delta variant" is not "deadly" at all, in fact it is even less virulent than the original Corona Chan bug.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/follow-the-science-deadly-delta-variant-registers-a-99.9-recovery-rate

2. All of the Corona Chan "vaccines" most certainly do work "less effectively" on the "deadly Delta variant", in fact it appears that they amplify the injuries and mortality from this bug to levels far greater than for the unvaccinated population!

https://vaccines.news/2021-06-29-mortality-delta-variant-eight-times-higher-vaccinated.html
https://gnews.org/1357351/

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-01-report-majority-now-dying-with-covid-are-vaccinated.html

https://thehighwire.com/videos/episode-221-the-mrna-insider/
https://media.livecast365.com/highwire/thehighwire/content/1624569509496.mp4

Just to punctuate the fact that the Corona Chan "vaccines" are killing bucketloads of people, once again, here's that inconvenient truth exposed in a couple of screen captures (and remember, VAERS only catches between 1% - 10% of actual adverse events and deaths - you do the math).

https://assets.lifesitenews.com/images/remote/https_www.lifesitenews.com/images/local/pdb1721.png

https://assets.lifesitenews.com/images/remote/https_www.lifesitenews.com/images/local/pdc1721.png

Replies: @melanf

In matters of vaccination, the main factor is selfishness
 

unvaccinated colleague infects me
 

“I was vaccinated! why are the others procrastinating! Because of them, the mask mode continues, restrictions, etc.”
 

Replies: @melanf, @Anatoly Karlin

as the number of vaccinated increases, they begin to put pressure on the unvaccinated, demanding that they be vaccinated
 

Replies: @Aedib, @melanf

It’s not necessarily all commies, it’s specifically Uncle Zyu. His sell-by time has come and gone, his peak popularity was in 1996 (when, being a pathetic coward, he allowed Yeltsin to “win” by election fraud). So, he is desperate to use anything to prop up his “party”. There are anti-Zyu commies in Russia, who are a lot more palatable.

Australia currently offers its lemmings the AstraZeneca and pFizer "vaccines", with AstraZeneca to the older and pFizer to the younger.

Anecdotally, the Australian mainstream reporting of adverse events overwhelmingly targets the AstraZeneca product, with a general public perception that the pFizer "vaccine" is the safer option.

The same situation appears to prevail in Europe - AstraZeneca seems to cop most of the bad press.

Yet the reality would seem to be quite the opposite - the AstraZeneca "vaccine" is actually substantially safer than the pFizer product, eg:

https://principia-scientific.com/pfizer-vaccine-has-three-times-more-deaths-than-astrazeneca/

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174034/Pfizer-vaccine-led-to-more-deaths-than-AstraZeneca-Report

One might speculate that in the politics of the vaccine industry (and let's not forget who has the most invested in the global vaccine game?) a narrative is being nurtured to herd the lemmings away from AstraZeneca and into the mRNA camp.

"there was no such propaganda (at the state level)" - Sputnik V twitter account that propagated fake news from Hungarian data is not a state level?

But you are correct about AstraZeneka. This is actually interesting. Russian media got some mileage from AstraZeneca document they uncovered:

"Restoring Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccines and Improved Co-operation Between Regulatory, Healthcare Agencies and Pharmaceutical Companies"

https://sputniknews.com/world/202105261083003470-more-deaths-related-to-vaccination-with-pfizer-than-astrazeneca---report/

The Moscow office of the vaccine manufacturer confirmed to Sputnik the authenticity of the document.

AstraZeneca confirms that it authored the document. This information was not intended for public release," the company's spokesperson said.
 

Replies: @melanf

then it is not a vaccine is it?

last time i checked a vaccine meant that i am not able to get that disease, and believe me i have grown up in Norway where we are filled with poison vaccines from birth.
So your newspeak is just making you sound retarded and brainwashed🤷‍♂️

Replies: @melanf, @Triteleia Laxa, @Bill

The best vaccines reduce the probability of getting sick by 5-10 times (in the case of the delta strain of Covid).
 

Corona Chan "Delta Variant" Mortality 8 Times Higher in Vaccinated Than Unvaccinated
https://vaccines.news/2021-06-29-mortality-delta-variant-eight-times-higher-vaccinated.html
https://gnews.org/1357351/

Corona Chan "Delta Variant" Caused and Spread By "Vaccines" - 62% of Corona Chan Deaths are "Vaccinated"
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-01-report-majority-now-dying-with-covid-are-vaccinated.html
 

Corona Chan "Vaccines" Cause 82% Spontaneous Abortions in First & Second Trimester Pregnancies
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-01-depopulation-alert-shocking-new-study-reveals-covid-vaccine-terminates-4-out-of-5-pregnancies-via-spontaneous-abortions.html
 

Replies: @utu

...I’m young, so covid is not dangerous for me, and I don’t care about other people.
 

In any case, when did the elderly do anything for the young? What right do you have now to ask for sacrifices and favours? It is payback time, it takes two to show social solidarity.

Replies: @melanf, @Bill

Such a reasoning is dangerous. Recently , I had the opportunity to speak to some colleagues who were involved in the medical management of Covid patients. There were a considerable number of young patients with no previous medical co-morbidities with severe Covid : bad organizing pneumonia as well as concurrent pulmonary embolism. They also tend to deteriorate rather quickly, some had mild illness in the morning ,only to require intubation in the evening with severe cytokine storm. Seemingly a high percentage of these young patients succumb to the disease. Earlier on during the pandemic, at least in their experience, it was not the case.
Of course these are all anecdotal. Unfortunately, I do not have data on whether the disease has evolved to be deadlier on the young with no co-morbids or this is just the experience of the medical center I work with.

Replies: @melanf, @Beckow

Even w/o this, vaccinations in Russia were easily accessible. I got my first shot of Sputnik V at VDNKh point in June. Every Russian citizen and foreigners with valid permits were inoculated efficiently (still had to stand ~ 1 h in line to get my shot). The drawback is that even though they give you official record, indicating the date, time, and batch of vaccine used, you have to get your second shot in the same place as the 1st. I hoped to do both in June, but that would involve being in the same place for 21 days, which was impractical for me. Now I will get my 2nd shot at VDNKh in July (I need to go to Russia for other business, anyway). Allowing to get two shots at different locations would be a smart move.

Replies: @melanf

Looks like an attractive nurse. Russian men should be running to get vaccinated.

Russian vaccination rate started increasing about two weeks ago. It's up to 700k doses per day. Before that the daily average was under 300k.

Note that increase is only in first doses. The production for the second doses has been underwhelming so it's possible that many of these people may only get single dose vaccinations (which is marketed as "Sputnik Light").

Replies: @AP

"This is the same as what Karlin claims" - If you thought so why you didn't bring it up when Karlin wrote his comment and left his insinuation hanging that I did not know what I was talking about because my number was wrong? But it is not the same: "fully vaccinated" is not the same as "received at least one dose." You do not have to side with Karlin on everything. Besides he can defend himself when he is correct and you won't help him when he is wrong.

Replies: @Demografie

You sure smallpox didn't trend lower over time? It is an unlikely set of circumstances that make a virus lethal. Most viruses are harmless.

I therefore infer that mutations will tend to make them less lethal; like randomly changing a letter a year in Hamlet, will make it make less sense.

But I am no expert.

Replies: @reiner Tor

That graph shows that Covid-19 incidence went down to almost zero before, during the summer of 2020, even without any vaccines. The vaccination campaign is being conducted in Europe in earnest and then they'll claim when it goes down during the summer that it was due to the vaccines. Wait until autumn to see what happens

Replies: @melanf

True; one thing from this mandemic is now people will treat every cold with suspicion; the whole Coronavirus family will be now hunted. A murderer in the family of pickpockets will cause the whole family to be chased out...

I thought it was mainly a political issue with Bolsonaro trying to please his American masters by torpedoing the Sputnik-V in Latin America.

Replies: @melanf

Is there any data available (no matter independent or by designers/makers themselves) about Sputnik's efficacy against variants?

Replies: @melanf

I get this impression that you are no longer sincere. You know you have no arguments left so you opted for making few random noises.

Whatever was slated for internal use in Russia for this period by Kremlin decisions has been fully utilized. And more will be utilized as more supplies will be coming. I predict that by the end of July 20% prevalence will be reached providing that Kremlin slates at least 5o% of vaccine production for the domestic use.

Kremlin decided to sell almost 50% of its production to other countries is another though related issue. It tells you about Kremlin priorities that Kremlin prefers doing international PR and making few bucks over helping Russians by providing more vaccines. If Kremlin was more concerned with Russians almost 20% of Russians would have been vaccinated by now. And you would not need silly Karlin stories that anti-vaxxer body snatchers took over 90% of Russians.

Replies: @Levtraro, @melanf

It's not a big effect, but anecdotally speaking, I don't think it is entirely negligible. A number of the "Putler wants to genocide the pensioners with vaccines" people have cited it as "proof" for their theories.

In fairness if it was not this it would probably be some other nonsense, when Putin did get the vaccine, their new tack was that it was a placebo.

Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive
 

Russia lags behind others in its COVID-19 vaccination drive (May 3, 2021)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-coronavirus-world-news-europe-health-3d166261cb9f80964c8ce1e1ef9a4525
On April 28, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there are enough vaccines available in Russia, adding that demand was the defining factor in the country’s vaccination rate.
 

Waiting lists for the shot remain long in places. In the Sverdlovsk region, the fifth most-populous in Russia, 178,000 people were on a wait list by mid-April, regional Deputy Health Minister Yekaterina Yutyaeva told AP.
 

Rumors about the alleged dangers of vaccines actually surged on social media in December, when Russia began administering the shots, and have continued steadily since then, said social anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova.
 

A proper media campaign promoting vaccinations didn’t begin on state TV until late March, observers and news reports note. Videos on the Channel 1 national network featured celebrities and other public figures talking about their experience but didn’t show them getting injected. President Vladimir Putin said he received the shot about the same time, but not on camera.
 

Dragan, the data analyst, says one possible explanation for the reluctance is the narrative from authorities that they have tamed the outbreak, even if that assessment might be premature.

With most virus restrictions lifted and government officials praising the Kremlin’s pandemic response, few have motivation to get the shot, he said, citing an attitude of, “If the outbreak is over, why would I get vaccinated?”

Government statistics say infections have stayed at about 8,000-9,000 per day nationwide, with 300-400 deaths recorded daily. But new cases have been steadily increasing in Moscow in the past month, exceeding 3,000 last week for the first time since January.
 

Replies: @melanf, @Anatoly Karlin, @Levtraro, @Gerard-cancel culture

Anti-vaccine people are now complaining about the dangers of the "spike protein" created by the vaccine. First of all, the "spike proteins" created by the vaccine are not released freely throughout the body. Secondly, what do they think happens when they get a natural infection of the virus? The spike proteins from a viral infection are moving freely throughout the circulatory system and causing tremendous damage to peoples' organs. Getting vaccinated is the far better option than toughing it out with an infection.

What evidence do you have of long term damages from the virus? Many well credentialed scientists have written about potential long term harm from the gene therapy experiment you guys are pushing. Why do you ignore them and instead trust those who have a financial interest in pushing the shots? I'll stick with the control group, you go with the experimental medication, in 1 or 3 years we should know who was right.

Replies: @Passer by

This is a pretty useless table. The Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines were initially reserved for the elderly with chronic illnesses. Younger people with comorbidities were usually given the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Sinopharm was given to healthy old people and to younger people. The Sputnik vaccine was given mostly to fit young people. The cause of death is also unclear, it appears that it includes deaths from other causes.

It’s even worse than that, because the Pfizer vaccine was started to be distributed early in January (or late December), the Sputnik only in February and mostly March and later. So simply those with the Sputnik had less time to get infected and die.

But it perhaps does show something: the Sputnik V is probably not a poison.

Replies: @melanf

My employer tried to force us to get the normal flu shot for the last few years, but has made a point of saying the covid vaccine is voluntary. Go figure.

You do not want to get my point. Karlin's article is a blatant manipulation reflected in its title: Dying from Corona in Russia Has Long Been "Optional". Russia does not have enough vaccines to cover those who need it. For this reason Kremlin does not promote vaccination as it should so it creates a false image of oversupply and instead Kremlin prays that more people become anti-vaxxers. Then people like Karlin can write that everything is hunky-dory while blaming stupidity of people who do not want to get vaccinated. If those who need it tried to get it most of them would be left empty handed. Dying is not optional in Russia.

I admit that this lie is very cleverly constructed. Kremlin is very good at PR as far as their own population goes. People like Karlin dish it out and people like you eat it up. But however you disguise it and wrap it up a lie is a lie. In USSR they lied as well but at least when it came to vaccinations they did not tacitly promote obscurantist anti-vaxxer positions to deceive people that there is plenty of vaccines. This is very cynical and clever and I can see that this kind of lies is exactly what Karlin likes. Bu there is a price for it: you will end up having more misinformed idiots in your country who hopefully in the end will see through the lies and then will hang Karlin by his balls.

Replies: @AP, @Mr. Hack, @Anatoly Karlin

In terms of side effects and effectiveness, the Sputnik roughly corresponds to mRNA vaccines (judging by the information that is known).
 

[ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/experimental-vaccine-death-rate-for-israels-elderly-40-times-higher-than-covid-19-deaths-researchers ]

[ https://www.bitchute.com/video/bSxEe9RS0P29/ ]
 

Magnetofection - Magnetic Components Deliberately Inserted into pFizer & Moderna mRNA "Vaccines"

[ https://www.bitchute.com/video/bHthoQmn3lFl/ ]
[ https://zb10-7gsop1v78.bitchute.com/r8wq75doLqKP/bHthoQmn3lFl.mp4 ]
 

Replies: @melanf

When 90% of supply is bought by public and the remaining 10% is exported and some is still lingering on shelves I can believe that the equilibrium between supply and demand has been reached. This is the case with 50 tons of black caviar that Russia produces. If however Kremlin decided to spend money on advertisement campaign that caviar is good for you and that eating caviar is a patriotic duty of every Russian then there would be caviar shortage and people would stand in lines for it. It does not make sense for Kremlin to make Eat the Black Caviar campaign because practically all of produced caviar is already consumed.

Would it make sense for Kremlin to make intensive vaccination campaign if all produced vaccines are already utilized? No. That's why there are no lines for vaccines because raising demand does not make sense. If anything lowering demand is in Kremlin's interest because Kremlin prioritizes export for political reasons. Russian anti-vacxxers and Karlin who blames them while winking his eye are working hand in hand with Kremlin to help Kremlin obscure how pathetically low is Russia's capacity for vaccine production and the fact that Kremlin cynically prioritizes foreigners over Russians by exporting almost 50% of produced vaccines.

Russia delivers Sputnik V vaccine to St Petersburg after shortage problems (March 19, 2021)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-sho/russia-delivers-sputnik-v-vaccine-to-st-petersburg-after-shortage-problems-idUSKBN2BB1QX

Since then several Russian regions, excluding Moscow, have reported shortages, with some Russians voicing frustration about Russia sending vaccines abroad, arguing that more shots should be made available at home.

In St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, there has been a shortage of the first component of the two-shot vaccine in more than 30 out of around 120 vaccination points, said Olga Ryabinina, the local health committee’s spokeswoman.
 

Replies: @melanf, @melanf

It is ~100% against death. Even with no vaccine, Covid is ~100% against death!

I saw Small Pox eradicated 100% through vaccination; but then those were the days when things worked the way they were supposed to work. One shot, you are immune for life.

Replies: @melanf, @Vishnugupta

I can never get away from the impression that 95% of irrationalist Rightism is a load of horseshit. Everyone can cook up stories like these.

Replies: @Bashibuzuk

It's all orgones, all the way down.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/7919/4022/products/org123h_1296x.jpg

Replies: @Bashibuzuk

Gumilyov was a poet, just like both his parents were. His theory is poetic. This doesn't mean that he was incorrect in his observations.

He correctly described the ethnogenesis and passionarity, but he could not find a convincing explanation of why the ethnogenetic impulse appeared and how it was produced. His "biosphere induced" "mutation " hypothesis might today be more adequately phrased in terms of epigenetic influence on psychological types and behavioral patterns.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33798973/

Gumilyov was a genius and a seer, seers find a path forward and then "Soviet Engineers " fill in the details and streamline the narrative so it could be taught in universities.

https://lurkmore.to/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F

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The idea that ethnic groups (ethnoi) are a product of an upsurge of people who have a mutation giving them a greater capacity to convert energy into work (passionarnost’) is weird enough. The idea that this energy comes from the animate matter of the ‘biosphere’ and also from some sort of mysterious and undefined ‘cosmic radiation’ is downright kooky.
 

Replies: @Bashibuzuk