Black Lodges update before we start with the news today. I will release a Riot Drop this Friday that will include a no-nonsense bomber jacket, an embroidered long sleeve polo shirt and a t-shirt. For all you paying subscribers of this newsletter the discount code from previous drops applies for this also, and if you don’t remember the code please email me. For full transparency, I am using this drop to pay for the coming legal costs that are heading my way as I go into court starting Thursday. Needs be and I am sure you can understand that this time around I need to be my own charity.
If 2020 has proven anything is that reality is even more interested in producing news quicker than the damn 24hr propaganda machines, ahem, news channels would want them to. I forgot to silence my phone last night and was woken up by the damn machine bleeping repeatedly at 0330 with news from Pfizer and BioNTech about a possible Covid-19 vaccine. Now, a few hours later, some more sleep and 4 double espresso’s later here are a few takes on this that a worth talking about. I am ecstatic at the initial news about a possible vaccine against this virus. The need for social interaction is desperate, even for someone as socially inept as myself. That’s however where the good news starts. First, the vaccine needs to be approved by the relevant heath authorities, it isn’t yet and that’s pending several more weeks and months of testing. Secondly, cost. I know it is going to be free in Germany, but I don’t know what the deal is across the world. Without this going out to literally everyone this is not going to solve the problem of the pandemic and any worries about race / wealth / national disadvantages arising are more than justified. Thirdly, anti-vaxxers. Lastly, but also importantly, the news broke from Pfizer/BioNTech yesterday, not health authorities, these results haven’t been independently verified and the skeptical part of me looked at the stock exchange results this morning and drew it’s own conclusion. Yes, private, profit-driven medial research is where we are at, but that’s doesn’t mean it is ethically wrong.
In other news, Bolivia is completing a proper return to self-determination outside the Elon Musk / CIA reality they wanted to impose on the country for Lithium.
I am going to finish today up with this one. If you are local, join me on my daily evening walks, wear your fucking mask and let’s go.