Keep Calm, No Fear, [Don't] Shut It Down, and Keep on Rockin'! #BeTheRain
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 11, 2020 - UPDATED JUN 2, 2020 + ONGOING UPDATES
Keep Calm and Keep on Rockin'
In the immortal words of Neil Young: "Keep Calm and Keep on rockin'!"
No Fear, No Surrender. Courage
(Please note that "No Fear" doesn't mean be reckless or careless.)
And in the prescient words of Neil Young & Crazy Horse: "Shut it Down".
Shut it Down
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Shut It Down, Shut It Down, Shut It Down. But, be aware of the false reality of "The Black Mirror" and the generation of fear via "synthetic terror".
More on Keeping Calm and Rockin' in the free world (EARTH).
"I don't know who wrote this, but it's beautiful."
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
~~ United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy - 1963
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[Then: "War on Terror" - Now: "War on Germs"]
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ps - we continue to be cautiously optimistic about our futures despite the global turmoil. DisCERNment is key during this "pLandemic/infodemic" (alarmed by that quote? see Event 201 and you will understand. SUMMARY: Event 201 - The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the
World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted
Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, [5+ months ago! ] in New
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In 2009 when we had the "Novel H1N1" flu make the rounds a lot of people got it but don't remember anything even remotely like what is going on in 2020. The herd is really spooked (even the horse in terms of touring) on this and maybe it will be bad like it was in 2009. The media at that time were still making profits on the 2008 crash so H1N1 got reported but not hourly like this.
It is an odd one since kids don't seem to get it, according to Pub Med it is a mild cold for 70 to 80% who get it and men seem to get it more then women. There is a testicular aspect to this that is under reported for men that is like the mumps.
60,000,000 people got H1N1 that was handled well I thought by the Obama administration (I worked in healthcare, washed my hands often and saw 500 people a day easy but kept a four foot distance) and now with 1,000 cases of this "Novel" flu in the United States here in North Carolina people are getting ready to shelter in place, all arts/music/plays/sports are being canceled, the major universities are telling students not to come back to campus after spring break and employers are allowing people to work from home in record numbers.
What is going on here?
Here are the stats on the Novel H1N1 flu all these years later...just to kind of put what is happening now into a historical perspective:
https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm
Damn, the media has spooked the Horse into not touring old barns! In 2009 in the midst of that pandemic Neil played Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Now, he played down under in the summer but did Canada right at the tail end of flu season. https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm
Oops...here is a link to the 2009 shows at Sugar Mountain set lists (that have added some great features I really like):
https://sugarmtn.org/sm_year.php?year=2009
Thanks for info & links Jim. appreciate your sharing here.
Well, certainly gives new meaning to March Madness?!
this is definitely a time when separating the wheat from the chaff is more essential than ever. fortunately, most of us around here are pretty savvy to a lot of the BS. They saw the end game here long ago and have been well prepared by looking forward and not looking back.
here's the cure: Keep calm, crank up the disCERNment to 10, turn off the news & build a garden.
be well,
peace
No, the media have NOT spooked the Horse into not touring.
Some things, like horror films and rollercoasters, can be anxiety-inducing but are also mostly harmless. But other things are scary for good reason: to inspire us to take action against them.
Neil (like most environmentalists who have studied the huge risk of animal-based viruses mutating) is acutely aware of just how massively dangerous this virus could be if its spread isn't aggressively limited or slowed. And I think a lot of people are *completely* unaware of the danger, and this is going to cost lives; lots of them. Not *their* lives, necessarily, but those of our elderly relatives or neighbours.
No, it's not the flu. It has a significantly higher death rate and we have no immunity to it (yet). It grows exponentially: the number of cases can double and then double again and again within days, lulling us into a false sense of security early on, starting with a handful of cases and developing into thousands and then hundreds of thousands within weeks. Which is one reason why enforced social distancing is working well to very straightforwardly nip it in the bud in some Asian countries, by reducing the amount of people each carrier passes it on to. It is too late to nip it in the bud now in many countries, but its passage through the population can still be slowed so the health care system can manage cases more effectively.
And yes, the estimated death rate of 1-5% does sound rather insignificant on paper: "almost everyone recovers! Hardly anybody dies!". But this is one area where gut instinct is misleading. In a population as massive as 8 BILLION, 1% could translate to many millions of people worldwide, if it were not contained. Many more millions if the percentage is higher. That's a worst-case scenario, but a sadly plausible one.
THIS is why Neil is taking this virus deadly seriously, because it poses a very real risk not just to him and his band (who are in their seventies also), but also his audience and indeed the entirety of the general public. A virus is most dangerous when it is allowed to spread. Stopping it might now be implausible, but slowing its spread could be the difference between a genuine world-wide disaster and a relative storm in a teacup (with apologies to the relatives of those who have died). For this reason we can expect event cancellations to be actively enforced in the coming weeks.
(And yes, for sure, keep calm: I agree with this bit absolutely. Panicing doesn't make anything easier. And, to lighten the mood for a second, the odds of survival are still strongly in our favour, as individuals).
But collectively, the reality is that some people we know, either in real life or online (and mostly those who are elderly and/or with medical conditions), are most probably going to die.
For emphasis: this isn't just a hyped-up common cold that is going to make a lot of people mildly ill. It *is* going to make a lot of people mildly ill, but also a relatively small percentage (and even a small percentage of the population is a sizeable amount of people, world-wide) of our friends and loved ones are likely to die.
That's a pretty stark way of putting it. And hopefully in a few weeks or months the vast majority of us can look back and celebrate at collectively dodging a bullet. That's the best-case scenario. And at heart, I am optimist! Except when it comes to Archives Vol 2 and "July".
Scotsman.
@Scotsman - well said.
This is not media hype. This is not a minor blip. The stock market understands the seriousness of the situation. Almost all of the gains in the last three years have been lost in the last few weeks. They are pricing in the fact that people are going to have to take steps to avoid contact with other people, insofar as that is possible. Businesses all over the world are going to die and leave holes in our supply chain and holes in workers' income.
The NCAA men's and women's championships have been cancelled. The NBA games have been cancelled. In my state, Washington, the state has banned gatherings of over 250 people in the three largest counties in the state.
My wife works at a hospital that is at the very epicenter of this catastrophic virus. There are no hospital volunteers available, so the hospital employees, including my wife, have to take turns at the volunteer desks.
The local Costcos are now jammed all the time with people panic-buying. Supermarkets have been running low on basic supplies such as TP.
And our federal government - sorry MAGA cultists - is completely falling down on the job. Banning travel from other countries is, according to the actual epidemiological experts, a useless effort. What we need is a coordinated national response - widespread testing (still extremely scarce in this country), economic mitigation (pausing payroll taxes is a good way to bleed necessary programs) such as child care, free testing and healthcare for victims and potential victims - on and on.
This is already a disaster. It is getting worse literally by the day. This is not a partisan political hit job. It is a pandemic and we are all potentially at risk. We all need to pull together because these are desperate times. Do not underestimate the dangers and do not carry on as normal.
We are not all doomed but the death toll is going to outstrip anything else in our lifetimes and we need to deal with the fact that life has changed.
Keep calm....rock on....don't listen to main medias controlled by corporations...grow a garden...live outdoors...love nature....excercise....never liked crowds or cities...keep on rockin in the free world.
Unknown: While all of this is intelligent advice in general, I'm not sure it's going to be a particular effective defense against a highly contagious virus that has already started killing people and is rapidly growing exponentially.
One person unwittingly spreads it to two, those two unwittingly spread it to four, those four spread it to eight. And pretty soon, sooner than you would instinctively presume, it is in to the hundreds of thousands. That's not intended to be a precise explanation of the growth rate of this virus, but you see the point.
The fact that I have a nice garden to sit in (and that I am -relatively- young and in good health) doesn't necessarily protect me, and it *certainly* doesn't help those who have to live in more crowded areas, or are elderly or in poor health. So my humble opinion (yes, I know, you don't hear that expression from me very often!) is that a lot more concern is required.
There are times when massive caution is instinctive but also unnecessary, of course. If you want to dance around your living room but are scared the neighbours might see (the British people here will relate to this), your caution is mostly just inhibition stopping you from enjoying yourself. This is a little different, though, because people are going to die: they are already dying. And people aren't aware of the threat.
This is an abnormal virus, one with *significant* risk. And it's important because how we react may be the difference between a relative handful of unfortunate people dying and a lot of unfortunate people dying.
We all know people who are vulnerable, and we need to do our best to protect them, as individuals and collectively as nations. I have no knowledge whatsoever on which government responses are going to be most effective, but here in the UK, it is worrying how our government seems to be doing very little until it is too late. The most effective response so far seems to be coming from those countries that have acted early and decisively; though this may vary between regions.
Scotsman.
Joel: all the best to your wife in the coming weeks. There will be some new challenges for all involved in healthcare I am sure. I send her my best wishes, my admiration and my thanks.
Good point, too, on the knock-on effect on businesses.
"Keep calm and don't carry on as normal" may well be the best attitude to have!
Scotsman.
Kids don't have symptoms but still can transmit. Effecting mostly older people, but many bad cases of people in their 40s. Check out Joe Rogan's podcast from earlier this week with Virus expert, scary stuff
A common concept about catastrophies is, that they cause all kinds of desorientation in time and space. There are all kinds of denial, different speeds of adaption to the situation and of course various degrees of being affected. In order to overcome this problem, one has to rely on sub-systems like health services, reliable media or governmental executives who can be trusted to manage a crisis. Apparently in this case all these sub-systems are either lacking or highly deficient in the US as compared to many other developed nations at this point.
In addition the very American idea, every man (and woman) to and for himself (or herself) in the sense, that everybody is entitled to their own world view and their own way to respond and react accordingly is absolutely not helpful when argueing with a virus. All countries who followed the approach of reality denial, essentially leaving it to the individual to decide how to react (among them the US, Brazil, Sweden and - in the beginning of the pandemia phase -also Great Britain, Spain and Italy) now have to deal with a death toll unseen in any scenarios since the Flu pandemia of 1918/19. There the powers that be put the burden of responsibility and self-reliance on human beings that for a long time were lured into the concept, that they can do without.
Under ongoing and even increasing pressure the present outcome in the US was foreseeable even for outside observers. Large portions of the American population and people elsewhere appear to fall victim to a disinformation pandemia of all sorts and the social and economic consequences bear heavy on the weakest of the people. Just a spark…
At this point there seems to be no alternative for the people of the US but to come to their senses and finally accept who they really are, a heroic people, still believing in individualistic heros when there is no demand for heros. A pandemia and its consequences are not fought and overcome by heros but by reasonable and disciplined people (if that falls within a wider pragmatic definition of heroism, so be it). My favourite rock & roll hero of all time apparently understood this: an old man now, making music, singing for the chicken and his wife. Paradoxically even that makes him a hero one more time.
I saw a bumper sticker that says it all...
“Denial is what separates us from the animals”.
Peace 🙏
@ Dionys - thanks so much for thoughts from abroad.
They are most welcome here in the USA bubble where many believe the USA to be the permanent center of the universe. And we encourage other non-USA folks to drop thoughts as well. Never mind the english language concerns. The feelings come through -- which is what matters most.
We can only say at this time that we do hope that everyone around the world has learned something here in 2020 in order to make 2021 better going fwd.
You mention a " disinformation pandemia ". Yes, there is a massive lack of disCERNment all over. There is a fundamental lack of ability to separte the wheta from the cahff that really strains credulity.
Some of the things we hear folks discussing seriously are very troubling.
Like in the 80's during AIDS when people were afraid to use the same bathroom as a person with AIDS. The levels of ignorance are appalling b/c folks won't do their own research to verify info. If folks don't wake up to being able to recognize truth and lies, they will be taken advantage of in every form and fashion.
If nothing is learned, then, well, it's not too hard to see where this will keep heading.
@ Dan - nice.
We've heard the only emotion stronger than love is denial.
But here's a bumper sticker needing updating we saw recently:
http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2020/05/live-music-is-better-of-course-but.html
Peace 🙏
thrasher
Sun, Jun 7, 11:50 AM (3 days ago)
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@ Dan - your calming words are welcome here. and actions speak louder.
but the right words 1st, can lead to the right actions next.
Peace 🙏
@ Blogger Unknown - while we welcome everyone's words here, we're not finding this very helpful.
This is simply more of the same old divide and conquer rhetoric spiffed up to ride along with the latest hate vehicle of the day. The false illusion dialect of the left-right duality is just another trap you've fallen into yet again.
As we commented on another thread awhile ago, anyone with eyes wide open can see, everything seems to be going according to The Plan. Civil War 2.0
Trust us, the Powers That Be want this so bad. The desperation is so palpable that they even dragged out the same 60's script.
Have a white man murder a black man in broad daylight. Destroy the inner cities by burning at night w/riots and looting. And then top it off w/ launching a manned rocket into space as a distraction to the war on the invisible enemy.
Don't fall for it again. Everyone should've learned a lot from the 60's, hope so, but guess not?
"NORMAL NEVER WAS." (mural image text)
“We will not go back to normal. Normal never was.
Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature.
What we have been forced to leave behind we needed to leave behind. What is getting us through is what we will need to take forward, all the rest is up to us.
DREAM. While [you] have so much time. DREAM of the life you want. DREAM of the world you desire to exist in. Look for the places in your new dreams that have parts of the old world and remove them. What is the dream then?
From there we can add to the collective weaving of whatever it is that is next.
If we are gonna heal, let it be glorious.”
~~Sonya Renee Taylor
Regarding the punctuation of "pandemic".
Pls look up the text book definition of the term and the top 10 characteristics. Then try and validate against current data.
We're going to conduct the exercise for anyone here. Do it yourself and see what you learn.
However, one criteria is the establishment of "Patient Zero", for example. To date, this criteria has not been met.
fwiw, suicide deaths exceed CV19. So, "Suicide Pandemic."
Look, we're not trying to upset folks here. We really are asking folks to calm down and have been since this whole episode began. Not saying be reckless, but fearless.
We're looking at our own research which we have personally conducted using 1st & 2nd direct sources. Not 3, 4, 5 source mass media sources, hearsay.
Yes, it takes time, of course. But folks, pls educate your self. We would never expect anyone to take medical advice from TW. Likewise, we would never take medical advice from a politician or musician.
the choice is yours.
"think for yourself and question authority" is our mantra.
peace
ps - to re-clarify.
we're not trying to inflame, antagonize or disrespect anyone here, whatsoever.
as with all things, there's more to the picture than meets the eyes.
This is all just another verse in the book of old, before the chapter where dreams unfold, where battles rage on the open blog ...
http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2013/11/the-day-music-died-50-years-ago-today.html
*note publication date
hello yet again. here we are in 2021, as the Groundhog Days go to Groundhog Weeks, then months.
so what are we doing about this?
ACTION PLAN FOR IMMEDIATE CHANGE to counter the corruption , censorship and surveillance by media/tech/finance giants and politicians:
1)Cancel Cable TV (All channels should be made available individually so consumers don't have to give money to channels they don't want to)
2)Do Not donate money to politicians & consider boycotting companies that give them money or pay them for speeches.
Some might decide to boycott Facebook,Twitter,Apple,Amazon,Microsoft, Google and Netflix for censorship or corruption issues alone.
3)Bank with small local banks & invest with small brokerages & insist your employer/pension fund do the same.
4)Support a pardon for Julian Assange & Edward Snowden and other
whistleblowers/truthtellers
5)Join Pro freedom social networks like MINDS or Gab ,where freedom of speech and truth are respected.
Follow Zero Hedge,Corbett Report and Project Veritas for pro truth/freedom news.
6)Use web browsers like Dissenter,Tor or Brave rather than Chrome or Safari when you surf the web.
Use search engines like Quant or DuckDuckGo rather than Google or Bing for web searches.
Use an email service like ProtonMail rather than Gmail.
Save important online videos/articles/posts to your PC hard drive or phone.
Post videos to Bitchute and LBRY rather than youtube
Shop online at Overstock and smaller independent retailers rather than Amazon/Wayfair
7)Use Linux operating systems like Linux Mint, Lubuntu, Debian or others on your computer rather than Windows, Mac or Chrome OS (Almost any PC can be switched to Linux).
Use a Linux based smartphone like PINEPHONE or a "dumbphone" rather than Google Android or Apple iPhone.
Avoid buying a "smart" TV as it is smarter to buy a "dumb" TV with no operating system pre-installed.
Use a Linux mini PC on your TV for web browsing/computing/gaming/video streaming rather than amazon fire tv/roku/google chromecast/apple tv/microsoft xbox/nvidia shield.
8) Do NOT support the "War on Drugs" which causes more crime,death,murder,gang violence,incarcerations,enriching criminals while millions of people still use illegal drugs anyway.
9) Support a new foreign policy where We The People worldwide unite behind and promote the principles of truth/freedom/goodwill/integrity/humility/Non-Aggression Principle/Golden Rule and focus on winning hearts and minds.
10) Support a worldwide effort to voluntarily help others in the hope that it will win over more people to these principles.
Please share this plan of action with others via text,email & social media if you agree.Here is link to share this message.Thank You
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/943148464663228416?referrer=truthfreedompeace
Here are some examples of censorship/corruption by tech/media giants,but there are many more:
Facebook censorship- https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/19/triple-amputee-veteran-brian-kolfage-vows-to-haul-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-into-court/
Apple and Google censorship- https://nypost.com/2017/08/21/how-apple-and-google-are-censoring-the-mobile-web/
Amazon censorship-
‘A Child’s Voice’ producer John Paul Rice blows whistle on Amazon censorship and child sex trafficking
https://noqreport.com/2020/08/07/a-childs-voice-producer-john-paul-rice-blows-whistle-on-censorship-and-child-sex-trafficking/
Twitter censorship- https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/910893465478406144
Netflix’s ‘Cuties’ slammed for ‘sexualizing’ little girls
https://nypost.com/2020/08/20/netflixs-cuties-slammed-for-explicitly-sexualizing-little-girls/
Google, Twitter Tighten Censorship Noose on Conservatives Ahead of Election https://headlineusa.com/google-twitter-censorship-noose/
Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter Censor Viral Video of Doctors’ Capitol Hill Coronavirus Press Conference
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/facebook-censors-viral-video-of-doctors-capitol-hill-coronavirus-press-conference
"I CAN'T KEEP DOING THIS": DOCTOR PLEADS FOR REVIEW OF DATA using Ivermectin to treat Covid DURING COVID-19 SENATE HEARING.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/eWJbMJd1sSWI/
If anyone can watch this Pizzagate video and not believe it merits investigation,I don’t know what does.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/idDnki7lJgQJ/
"I Am The Target": Silenced Chinese Virologist Tells Tucker COVID-19 Intentionally Released, CCP Trying To 'Disappear' Her
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/i-am-target-silenced-chinese-virologist-tells-tucker-covid-19-intentionally-released-ccp
Famous Journalist RESIGNS After Outlet Censors Biden Scandal, SLAMS The Leftist Censorship In News. Glenn Greenwald has resigned from the news outlet he co-founded, The intercept.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UFRirpxqD8A/
Apple, Amazon join Google in suspending Parler
https://nypost.com/2021/01/09/apple-joins-google-in-suspending-parler-from-app-store/
Almost any computer can be switched to Linux from windows,mac or chrome OS. Here are some tutorials but if you feel intimidated by making the switch I would suggest asking a computer literate friend to help or going to a local computer shop.
How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-make-the-switch-from-windows-to-linux
How to Install Linux Mint
Get your new OS going on Windows or Mac
https://www.lifewire.com/install-linux-mint-4173111
Install Gallium (or other Linux OS) on Chromebook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FqK7PNa7Uo
All political parties are easily co-opted & corrupted.Things won't change much until citizens unite behind truth/freedom/goodwill/integrity/humility/Non-Aggression Principle/Golden Rule.My goal in life is to unite people worldwide behind these principles and I hope many will join in this effort.Most politicians who claim to serve the public are really self servants/crony servants.Therefore,We the People must unite to make change.Social media/networking make this possible.
We have a short time on this earth,which reminds me why truth,freedom,kindness,forgiveness, goodwill and integrity are of the highest value.
Some may say you can’t save the world, but we would say why not try anyway?
Feel free to drop suggestions here.
In the meantime ... Keep Calm, No Fear, Be Alert, Open Back Up, and Keep on Rockin'!
ps - Our Song Request for Neil Young: "Open Back Up" and His Reply Back To Us @
http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2021/01/song-request-for-neil-young-open-back.html
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