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I discovered you only recently (from your comments on another Substack). I'm reading some of your older posts. I must say that at times your writing is almost impenetrable--probably attributable to several IQ points difference between us--but clever! Who'd have thunk? Dostoevsky and natural immunity go together. Your mind is either brilliant or twisted. Maybe both? LOL. Seriously, I loved it.

I wish I knew your background. It would help to understand. Specifically, what is your technical background in terms of education and work experience? Please consider adding it to your profile.

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Thank you - this one (the Inquisitor's Cell) was a first attempt to venture into an area of my thinking that I myself usually get lost trying to work out. I still have made very little progress in trying to sort out my thoughts on the subject, and I still have yet to read Illich (who is referenced above).

I have no relevant background, nor credentials. However, pubmed and free online research has been around for a while, and I did once do a bunch of research for a fiction story about a mad scientist who wanted to create a super-virus to sterilize the world, and got a feel for how wildly out of sync the simplistic narrative around "novel" viruses is with the actual science.

Anyway yes, it makes understanding more difficult, but this is one of the reasons for the style of Unglossed - I don't want to start every post with "THIS STUDY PROVES COVID VACCINES DO X" because I don't want any readers to share those posts under the misapprehension that I am an expert (even if *I* think I am usually right about everything I have posted, and besides that I do a pretty good job of notifying readers of any corrections, imo). All I can offer the reader is a reputation for being right in the end.

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I haven't read it either, but have watched the clip from the movie. Your post drove me to stop reading half-way through and watch it again! So chilling... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6HcUUa8DI. (Starring John Gielgud as the inquisitor).

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Oh - I mean that I haven't read any Ivan Illich yet - he was very early in criticizing medicine for distorting what it means to experience life as a human, and if I was serious about developing my thoughts in that arena I would really have finished a few of his books by now!

The book (*edit: as in Bros K., I am in a hurry to start on dinner etc) is difficult because the father's unlikeability so thoroughly dominates the first bit, after that it is a smoother read.

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Could it be that they know this virus is manmade or 'manhandled'? Fauci knows. My theory? certain people have DNA vulnerabilities to this disease due to the way this disease was 'made' or programmed or whatever. They use the emerging MRNA technology so that all of us can have the right 'programming' to have 'immunity'. While we are in this dark age of medicine, someone came up with a Frankenstein virus. I agree with a lot of your assessment, but someone knows where this thing came from and how it was made. How much does that have to do with their bets and hedges?

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Indeed - but the number of instrumental players who are outside of that possible insider-knowledge group is probably high, so you end up needing *something* to explain a benevolent-intentioned complicity to the disaster!

I don't devote a lot of time to trying to mind-read Fauci; he follows media signals so much that it's hard to tell what the motives of either him or his hypothetical handlers might be (after all, those hypothetical handlers could just set the media narrative frame that he follows!).

I'm provisionally inclined to guess that most severe outcomes to SARS-CoV-2 are the result of pre-primed antibody dependent enhancement; if it looks like a duck, etc. There are actually scarier ways to make a bioweapon virus, as will be mentioned in my second-to-next essay - but probably no more effective way to reverse-design a deadly pseudo-vaccine than with an ACE-2-binding spike protein.

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