There’s no such thing as immunity debt, it’s a theory based on nonsense, and I’m so tired of it.
Getting viral infections is bad. The only medically advisable way of acquiring any immunity against a virus like covid, is to get vaccinated. Immunity debt is still NOT A THING. It’s not based in science. And nobody should seek out infections.
The term “immunity debt” only popped up in 20211 as part of a “back to normal” PR push.2 It’s propaganda based vaguely on the hygiene hypothesis, which is hazy but not even applicable to viruses.3 And now apparently some article is blaming this for dogs getting respiratory illnesses, which is nonsense and the writer and the editors who publish such garbage, often as PR placements, should feel embarrassed. If you think about it, “immunity debt” really does sound like just the sort of PR catchphrase that an economist would come up with.
The pseudoscience conspiracy theory of “Immunity Debt” is related to Lockdown Revisionism, the false suggestion that there were widespread harsh lockdowns all over the U.S. where people were forcibly prevented from leaving their houses for multiple years running — along with their dogs, which, apparently according to the New York Times, supposedly haven’t interacted with any other dogs or other humans for almost 4 years. The reality of course, for anyone who needs to reach into the memory hole for a refresher, is that there were strategic non-essential business shutdowns in some states with some gathering size restrictions for varying periods of time in 2020 ranging from a few weeks to a few months, and a few states with public indoor mask mandates that stretched into 2021. Let’s recall that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally went forward in 2020 and led to widespread transmission and outbreaks around the U.S.4
Some healthcare providers and hospitals have required masks beyond that – as they should because people at the hospital and getting healthcare are often disabled and already at high risk and will wind up mingling with infected people,5 and you shouldn’t get more sick by going to the hospital! You wouldn’t suggest they stop wiping down the exam tables and operating room equipment, and have us go back medieval times with rampant microbes and ungloved hands on open wounds, like when they had requiem mass when someone entered the hospital before they even died because it was almost certain because of the high level of infections.6 That deplorable situation continued through the 1918 flu pandemic, and subsequent waves of flu through the 1920s,7 until the sanitarians urged others to push for public health and disease control measures,8 which were expanded greatly when “From Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s through Johnson’s Great Society of the 1960s, a federal role in services affecting the health and welfare of individual citizens became well established.”9 There’s no benefit I can see to “naturally” reverting “the herd” to the dark ages of medicine.
There are no lockdowns to rail against, or even restrictions, so they have to use the definition of “lockdown” to mean any and all public health measures or disease mitigation – as Blake Murdoch and Timothy Caulfield explain, the term lockdown has “expanded to include any public health measure, even if it places little to no restriction on social mobility or interaction.”10 And as early as 2021, it was revealed in the HART-leaks11 that Tanya Kymenko was already equating all NPIs (Non Pharmaceutical Interventions) as the same as “lockdown”12 – which was expanded even then to include just seeing someone wearing a mask at the grocery store.
National Nurses United even did a press release on how this idea is wrong, dangerous, and unscientific in November 2022.13
But why do people spread these lies about the immune system14 and try to whip up resistance to masking?15 Of course because all this is being funded by people opposed to any public health measures.16 They think masks “remind people of danger” and curb people doing things in The Economy,17 like traveling and using fossil fuel – the curbing of which sent the Kochtopus18 into a panic at the start of the pandemic.19 Anything that makes people want to work from home and avoid commuting is counter to fossil fuel profits,20 and avoiding going to a crowded in person office isn’t great for commercial real estate investors who are already in trouble.21 So these business interests rev up the propaganda machine and deploy the PR think pieces and social media contrarians.22
This nonsense “immunity debt” is just a the new term for “herd immunity” – it’s all the same thing. And it’s all just as ridiculous and offensive because we know that it’s part of a belief in eugenics pseudoscience.23
It’s just another PR buzzword ploy to convince people not to curb any amount of going about their business for someone else’s profits. People wouldn’t just sacrifice themselves on the altar of The Economy willingly, so they’ve had to manufacture mild, just like the tobacco industry.24 Businesses want to divert people from demanding businesses to do any type of effort toward mitigation – to the devil with public safety. They figure people will not notice who’s missing and hope most people won’t realize the funerals slowed down a bit because the vulnerable can’t die twice. The big money industries don’t care about the public health debt.
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Counter Disinformation Project – “Immunity Debt”? Established 2021 – The term didn’t exist before 2021 – COUNTER DISINFORMATION PROJECT – OCT 6, 2022 The concept has been cited as a lockdown harm and as a reason why masks and in some cases even ventilation and clean air should not be used as mitigation measures in schools. It has been argued by some paediatricians in the UK and elsewhere that due to immunity debt infections don’t just catch up but overshoot. Immunity debt is a form of extension of hygiene dogma, in practise it looks a lot like an extension of the thinking that supported herd immunity by infection as a strategy to handling the pandemic.It is worth noting that those who raise concerns about immunity debt are generally the same people who initially claimed children were considerably less likely to be infected and didn’t contribute significantly to transmission. These are also generally the same people who still claim the majority of covid infections in children occur outside of schools. This is despite contact tracing and testing studies demonstrating the direction of transmission, the latest being a comprehensive study from Italy. Although there had been some reporting in May 2021, immunity debt entered the public lexicon late June 2021 after a Wall Street Journal article went viral.
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Teams Human Forcing Normal in the Roaring 2020s Elite panic kayfabe is timeless but not permanent. CHLOE HUMBERT DEC 13, 2022 And instead “the tools” – or even useful information – government sources charged with infectious disease tracking, prevention, and public information, are themselves putting out misinformation in confusing attempts to normalize infection. The CDC was pushing that bizarre misinformation about immunity, claiming children should get infected with viruses to “move forward” with mass infection, contrary to science and respected healthcare professionals, such as National Nurses United who issued a correction.(33) Sweden’s Public Health is putting out tv ad videos about covid that promote older people getting into a sauna together in close contact and close quarters(34) which is surely a risk for transmission. Even the Chinese state affiliated media sounds like a conspirituality wellness influencer, posting on social media without evidence that you can boost your immune system with Chinese medicine after infection, while also erroneously claiming it’s the immune system that causes “the severe type” of covid.(35) All of these examples fit the “Elite Panic” described by James B. Meigs, “When authorities believe their own citizens will become dangerous, they begin to focus on controlling the public, rather than on addressing the disaster itself.”(36) And that seems like the only logical explanation for why they start claiming absurd nonsense.
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – Is the Hygiene Hypothesis True? Did Covid shutdowns stunt kids’ immune systems? Published October 25, 2022 By Caitlin Rivers You mentioned the hygiene hypothesis, which was postulated back in the ‘80s. German scientists noticed that families with fewer children tended to have more allergic disease. This was interpreted [to mean] that allergic disease was linked to experiencing fewer infections. I have explored this idea in my research for a couple of decades now. This phenomenon has helped us to understand the immune system, but our interpretation of it has grown and expanded—particularly with respect to viruses. Almost no virus is protective against allergic disease or other immune diseases. In fact, infections with viruses mostly either contribute to the development of those diseases or worsen them.
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CDC: 2020 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally led to ‘widespread transmission’ of COVID-19 The August event brought together about 462,000 people from 61% of all U.S. counties. Author: Emily Haavik Published: 10:14 AM CDT April 30, 2021 Updated: 8:41 AM CDT August 6, 2021 KARE 11 STURGIS, S.D. — Editor’s note: The above video is from Aug. 3, 2020. A recently released study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers found that the August 2020 Sturgis rally resulted in “widespread transmission” of COVID-19. The study, published on Thursday in Clinical Infectious Diseases, examined data and phone interviews from 39 state, county and city health departments. All those agencies had COVID-19 patients who had traveled to Meade County, South Dakota in August 2020 or directly attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The rally, which took place from Aug. 7-16 in 2020, brought together about 462,000 people from 61% of all U.S. counties. There was no mask mandate and South Dakota had few business restrictions at the time, according to the study. Four hundred sixty-three primary cases were reported within two weeks of the rally, and another 186 were identified as secondary contacts, making for 649 total cases traced back to the event. While specimens were not available for “full genome sequencing” to identify the rally as a super-spreader, the CDC reported that it had “many characteristics of a superspreading event.”
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People’s CDC Comment by Nov 6 on HICPAC Infection Control Changes – It’s still urgent to send comments Resources for writing a comment, selected comments from the HICPAC meeting, and our November 2nd protest. NOV 5, 2023 Healthcare settings are where high risk, disabled, and seniors will mingle with infected patients, visitors, and staff. Therefore, healthcare facilities and personnel should employ all precautionary strategies at all times.
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The Invention of Surgical Gloves Stuff To Blow Your Mind But if you go back in time before germ theory, before these various technologies, things obviously get a bit darker. Smith et al point out in medieval times there was a high level of illness and death in hospitals, and “when a sick person entered a hospital, his or her property was disposed of, and in some regions a requiem mass was held as if he or she had already died.” — That’s a bad healthcare plan. — It’s not a singing endorsement of the hospital you’re about to enter. Because of course the tools were primitive. They weren’t cleaned between uses. Cauterization via hot iron or boiling oil was commonly used. You’re looking at between 60 and 80 percent mortality rates. This is pretty common during the time period. And even into the early modern period, many things had improved but you still had surgeons placing ungloved hands directly into wounds, and directly into incisions, and so forth. And this was certainly the norm again much of human history. We didn’t have the materials and or we didn’t know about the invisible world of microbes.
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American Journal of Public Health and THE NATION’S HEALTH – The Influenza Epidemic of 1928-1929 with Comparative Data for 1918-1919 * – Selwyn D. Collins – February 1930 It will be seen that since January 1, 1920, there have occurred six more or less definite epidemics. The epidemic of 1928-1929 was the most important since that of 1920. The peaks of these six epidemics occur all the way from the early part of January to the early part of May, and the peak of the pandemic of 1918-1919 occurred much earlier in the fall than was the case in 1928-1929.
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American Journal of Public Health – LAW AND LEGISLATION – JAMES A. TOBEY, LL. B., DR. P. H. Pass the Parker Bill – 1928 (NIH.gov) Pass the Parker Bill-A vigorous resolution urging Congress to pass the Parker Bill for federal health coordination over the veto of the President was adopted by the Association at its 57th Annual Meeting in Chicago in October, 1928. The second session of the Seventieth Congress convenes December 3, 1928, and will adjourn March 3, 1929. The time for action is short, but there is time enough for this desirable procedure. The principles of the Parker Bill have been indorsed by the American Public Health Association every year since 1925, and Congress finally adopted the measure, somewhat amended, in May, 1928. Apparently due to the influence of General H. M. Lord, Director of the Budget, President Coolidge vetoed the bill on May 18, giving as reasons the fact that one section was considered unconstitutional and that the bill tended to ” militarize ” the U. S. Public Health Service. The palpable fallacies of these arguments have already been discussed in this department. Though the Parker Bill by the amendments lost a certain effectiveness, it is still a very important measure, especially in its provisions for allowing the detail of U. S. Public Health Service personnel to other government bureaus; in granting a commissioned status to sanitary engineers and other scientific personnel of the service; in providing for a Nurse Corps; and in setting up a national advisory health council. Sanitarians are still interested in this excellent measure and keenly desirous that it be passed now. If it is not, the bill must be reintroduced and passed all over again in the next Congress. It would be helpful if sanitarians would communicate with their United States Senators and Representatives regarding this important matter. Do it now.
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Institute of Medicine (US) Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health. The Future of Public Health. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1988. 3, A History of the Public Health System. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218224/ From the 1930s through the 1970s, local, state, and federal responsibilities in health continued to increase. The federal role in health also became more prominent. A strong federal government and a strong government role in ensuring social welfare were publicly supported social values of this era. From Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s through Johnson’s Great Society of the 1960s, a federal role in services affecting the health and welfare of individual citizens became well established. The federal government and state and local health agencies took on greater roles in providing and planning health services, in health promotion and health education, and in financing health services. The agencies also continued and increased activities in environmental sanitation, epidemiology, and health statistics. Federal programs in disease control, research, and epidemiology expanded throughout the mid-twentieth century. In 1930, the National Hygienic Laboratory relocated to the Washington, D.C., area and was renamed the National Institute of Health (NIH). In 1937, the Institute greatly expanded its research functions to include the study and investigation of all diseases and related conditions and the National Cancer Institute was established as the first of the research institutes focused on particular diseases or health problems. By the 1970s NIH grew to include an Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, an Institute for Child Health and Human Development, an Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, and an Institute of Mental Health, among others. In 1938, Congress passed a second venereal disease control act, which provided federal funds to states for investigation and control of venereal diseases. In 1939, the Federal Security Agency, housing the Public Health Service and national programs in education and welfare, was established. The Public Health Service also continued to expand. During World War II, the Center for Disease Control was established, and shortly thereafter, the National Center for Health Statistics. (Hanlon and Pickett, 1984) Federal programs supporting individual health services and state programs also continued to grow, both in number of health problems and types of citizens addressed. The Social Security Act was passed in 1935. One title of the act established a federal grant-in-aid program to the states for establishing and maintaining public health services and for training public health personnel.
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COVID-19 lockdown revisionism Blake Murdoch, Timothy Caulfield CMAJ Apr 2023, 195 (15) E552-E554; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.221543 The term “lockdown” has become a powerful and perverted word in the infodemic about democracies’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdown, as used in public discourse, has expanded to include any public health measure, even if it places little to no restriction on social mobility or interaction. For example, a working literature review and meta-analysis on the effects of lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality misleadingly defined lockdowns as “the imposition of at least 1 compulsory non-pharmaceutical intervention.”1 This working paper therefore conflated mandatory isolation for people with confirmed infections and masking policies with heavy-handed limitations on freedom of movement, and since it gained viral fame, it has helped fuel calls for “no more lockdowns.” This working paper has been highly critiqued and is less convincing than comparative assessments of health measures, like the Oxford Stringency Index.2,3 Here, we discuss the spread of misinformation on lockdowns and other public health measures, which we refer to as “lock-down revisionism,” and how this phenomenon has damaged trust in public health initiatives designed to keep people safer.
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The Pandata File. Detailed report on the international hub established April 2020 – COUNTER DISINFORMATION PROJECT, JUL 22, 2022 I discovered Fagan was advising the group on messaging and communication strategy from a psychological approach I wondered if and how data could have been collected and used. (HART leaks messages) Tanya Klymenko 2021-02-02 T 13:08:48 “@ pf thank you for sharing, very interesting! So, if the “pro-mask” are particularly concerned about equality then they might in theory be susceptible to a message on raising inequality as a direct result of NPI (lockdown). Is that a reasonable assumption?” Patrick Fagan 2021-02-02 T 14:44:02 “Yes exactly… They are wearing the face mask to be fair to others and to reduce harm… If messaging shows that face masks are unfair and harmful, that would be very powerful”
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Teams Human Anti-mask Woke-washing The moral distortion of social justice. CHLOE HUMBERT AUG 31, 2023 Deliberate Disinformation. There has been documented evidence of people hatching plans to deploy this very wokewashing tactic, on purpose, in order to get caring, community minded people to unmask and spread the virus. Patrick Fagan is a psychologist who once worked for Cambridge Analytica,(12) and was later linked to anti-vax groups in the UK(13) via messages revealed in the HARTleaks. In an exchange from 2021 between Tanya Kymenko and Patrick Fagan, reported by Counter Disinformation Project in 2022, Tanya Kymenko asked “So, if the “pro-mask” are particularly concerned about equality then they might in theory be susceptible to a message on raising inequality as a direct result of NPI (lockdown). Is that a reasonable assumption?” and Patrick Fagan replied, “Yes exactly… They are wearing the face mask to be fair to others and to reduce harm… If messaging shows that face masks are unfair and harmful, that would be very powerful.”(14) Patrick Fagan’s assertion was that mere messaging would be powerful – if people are made to believe it’s masking that is unfair. Patrick Fagan also had some other weird and wrong ideas, but there was no question that he was engaged in planning deliberate manipulation with propaganda against masking. And Tanya Kymenko was already equating all NPIs (Non Pharmaceutical Interventions) as the same as “lockdown” – which has expanded to include just wearing a mask.(15)
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National Nurses United: Increased RSV infections are not due to “immunity debt,” but failure to protect public health November 14, 2022 RSV and other respiratory viruses are significantly more severe this year due to a complete abandonment of public health measures that have helped protect the public from Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses,” said Deborah Burger, RN and a president of National Nurses United (NNU). “The lack of public health protections and the impact of Covid infections, reinfections, and long Covid are likely contributing to the significant impact of RSV on young children and infants. Promoting the idea of ‘immunity debt’ is not only unscientific, it is harmful to the public’s health.
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Teams Human – The Economy demands full participation, herd debt paid on an altar of lies “Public health” is operating, but with the wrong information and the wrong solutions to solve the wrong problems, because those calling the shots have the wrong goals. By CHLOE HUMBERT – DEC 23, 2022 Because “immunity debt” is the new “herd immunity” – because it’s all the same thing. Various and sundry disinformation purveyors have cycled through it all as their assertions have fallen apart again and again, to land here at yet another wrong. Who knows what will be next? It’s like a cognitive test puzzle: (there is no natural) herd immunity, (misuse of a word with gusto) robust immunity, (pandemic of the unvaccinated didn’t work so make it worse with infection) hybrid immunity, or (playing pretend) super immunity, (up against the nonexistent) wall of immunity, (wait what now) population immunity, (no safety) herd safety, and now (we didn’t cull enough yet) immunity debt…
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Twitter from @theSGLF: State Government Leadership Foundation (SGLF) Feb 9, 2022 Our latest ad is making an impact and liberals are now agreeing with what conservatives have been saying all along: mask mandates do more harm than good.
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Important Context Big Mystery Donors Fund COVID Conspiracy Nonprofit Nine large donations make up most of the 2021 budget of the Brownstone Institute, which is led by a man with a neo-Confederate past WALKER BRAGMAN JAN 19, 2023 With his Brownstone Institute, a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Tucker has sought to turn the clock back on public health—and perhaps on child labor laws as well. The organization has become a prolific and prominent source of misinformation related to the COVID pandemic, including vaccine misinformation, with connections to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump. Just last month, Mother Jones reported that a majority of the members of DeSantis’ new “Public Health Integrity Committee,” which he established to scrutinize federal public health recommendations, had ties to Brownstone. That same month, DeSantis’ surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, spoke at a conference the group hosted. Despite Brownstone’s prevalence, however, funding for the institute remains shrouded in secrecy thanks to America’s lax disclosure rules.
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And Voila, An Anti-Mask Twitter Rando by Chloe Humbert on Medium, Apr 7 2023 I came across a particularly aggressive anti-mask account on twitter in early 2021. He made a ridiculous capitalist fever dream argument to justify duping people into unmasking and getting sick, and maybe dying, for business interests. It seemed so blatantly ridiculous. Tweet from @reubenR80027912 dated 1019 am May 7, 2021 says Main Street is Very simple. Do 3 things PSA campaigns that you won’t die if vaxxed. Remind people kids aren’t a risk. Remove masks everywhere so people don’t constantly live in fear. Voila. Roaring economy. Spending is about freedom from fear. Quote-tweet from same account on February 22, 2021 says There’s something to the Mad Men pilot and covid. Telling people they’re more likely to die in a car accident than covid doesn’t matter. Nor do vax stats. Happiness is freedom from fear, a billboard that screams whatever you’re doing is ok @ DKThomp
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Jane Mayer, Dark Money. The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, January 2016 Fink was fascinated by the nuts and bolts of power. After studying the Kochs’ political problems for 6 months he drew up a practical blueprint ostensibly inspired by Hayek’s model of production, but impressed Charles by going beyond where his own 1976 paper on the subject had left off, called The Structure of Social Change. It approached the manufacture of political change like any other product. As Fink later described it in a talk, it laid out a three-phase takeover of American politics. The first phase required an investment in intellectuals, whose ideas would serve as the raw products. The second required an investment in think tanks, that would turn the ideas into marketable policies. And the third phase required the subsidization of citizens’ groups that would, along with special interests, pressure elected officials to implement the policies. It was, in essence, a Libertarian production line, waiting only to be bought, assembled, and switched on. Fink’s plan was tailor-made for Charles Koch who deeply admired Hayek, and approached both business and politics with the systematic mindset of an engineer. While some might find it disturbing to regard the democratic process as a factory, Charles soon adopted the approach as his own. As he told Brian Doherty, the libertarian writer, to bring about social change requires a strategy that is vertically and horizontally integrated. It must span, he said, from idea creation, to policy development, to education, to grassroots organizations, to lobbying, to political action. Before long libertarian wags had dubbed the Kochs’ publicity-shy multi-armed assembly line, the Kochtopus, a name that stuck.
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CMD – How Dark Money Shaped The School Safety Debate by Walker Bragman & Alex Kotch But the end of school masking is also in part due to a campaign by right-wing business interests, including the dark money network of oil billionaire Charles Koch, to keep the country open for the sake of maintaining corporate profits. These interests have been meddling in the education debate, first pushing to reopen schools and then fighting in-school safety measures, even as COVID case numbers were rising and children were ending up in hospitals. For nearly two years, these groups have been promoting questionable science and creating wedges between parents, teachers, and administrators in order to get America back to work — even at the risk of the nation’s children.
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Important Context Who Pays For Right-Wing Media? In 2021, big money flowed to some of the biggest names in right-wing and libertarian media from billionaire-backed foundations and funds. WALKER BRAGMAN JUL 17, 2023 Prager’s videos reflect the monied interests behind the foundation. They have taken aim at environmental regulations and promoted the use of fossil fuels. A PragerU video from April declared “the world needs more fossil fuels,” claiming that the benefits of their usage outweigh the negative side effects. A December 2021 video asks viewers “Are Pipelines Safe?” and answers in the affirmative. The video narrator laments the death of the Keystone XL Pipeline, describing the project as “lots of upside, almost no downside.” Throughout the pandemic, PragerU put out content lamenting “lockdown devastation” and the “dangers of ‘health above all’” as policy. The latter video, from July 2022, features Dennis Prager sitting by a fire supporting the anti-vaccine Canadian truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” and accusing the left of winning elections by appealing to the human desire “to be taken care of.”
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Wall Street Journal – Interest-Only Loans Helped Commercial Property Boom. Now They’re Coming Due. Landlords face a $1.5 trillion bill for commercial mortgages over the next three years. By Konrad Putzier, June 6, 2023 Many of the commercial landlords on the hook for the loans are vulnerable to default in part because of the way their loans are structured. Unlike most home loans, which get paid down each year, many commercial mortgages are known as interest-only loans. Borrowers make only interest payments during the life of the loan, with the entire principal due at the end. Interest-only loans as a share of new commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance increased to 88% in 2021, up from 51% in 2013, according to Trepp. Typically, owners pay off this debt by getting a new loan or selling the building. Now, steeper borrowing costs and lenders’ growing reluctance to refinance these loans are raising the likelihood that many of them won’t be paid back. Many banks, fearful of losses and under pressure from regulators and shareholders to shore up their balance sheets, have mostly stopped issuing new loans for office buildings, brokers say. Office and some mall owners are facing falling demand for their buildings because of remote work and e-commerce.
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The Internet of Fakes — PR Tactics, Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, Botnets, Influencers, Operatives, & Chaos Agents Persuasion, advertising, sales, target marketing, propaganda, agent provocateurs, and cognitive warfare, is the true reality of the media landscape. CHLOE HUMBERT SEP 14, 2023 Disinformation (or malinformation) is pushed out by business interests, multinational corporate interests, ideological interests, political interests, and geopolitical interests, with advertising and PR placements, and they take advantage of the social media platforms which are designed to keep people wanting to engage on the platform, and as a result the influence campaigns can manipulate platforms to promote ordinary people also spreading and sharing this stuff, in a feedback loop. Influencers and content creators and various clout chasers pick up on what gets the attention, and what content is going to generate money in the form of views, likes, follows, and paid subscriptions. A business ecosystem of sock puppet troll farms and botnets help boost the content – wherever it is, no matter who posts it.
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Eugenics as an ideology. Legal and political agendas have motivations to make semantic arguments that obscure eugenics and maybe that’s why we don’t have a separate word for eugenics as an ideological belief. CHLOE HUMBERT NOV 30, 2023 The possibly more prevalent, and somewhat more insidious version of eugenics ideology, that has flown under the radar in our modern world, is the variety that spawned grotesque and wholly unscientific ideas like “natural herd immunity” in the pandemic, as pushed by Scott Atlas5 and The Great Barrington Declaration adherents.6 To withhold prevention of suffering from those vulnerable.The proponents of this type of eugenics claim that they are leaving it up to “nature” or, alternately, specifically a divine power, depending on their religious or secular orientation. The point is to stop any intervention that would save people they think are “weak” or “undeserving” in some way as inappropriately countering the superior “nature” to do its thing.
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Teams Human Manufacturing MILD MILD: A longtime PR word to downplay threats, normalize harms, and manufacture consent by manufacturing doubt. CHLOE HUMBERT AUG 5, 2023 Perhaps not surprisingly, historically, this word “mild” was very much a favoured word of the tobacco industry in their PR and advertising.(30) People suspected smoking was bad for you and so they would claim a brand was “less irritating” according to doctors.(31) They specifically described cigarettes as mild “so as not to provoke anxiety about health, but to alleviate it, and enable the smoker to feel assured about the habit and confident in maintaining it over time.”(32)