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β€œAll thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; And thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, And talk of thy power; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, And the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.” ‭‭ Psalm‬ ‭145‬:‭10‬-‭13‬ ‭ Good morning πŸ˜‡β˜€οΈβ˜•οΈ #gm #biblestr
Antibody production, robust or not, is no guarantee of actual, real-world immunity. Not at all. The assertion that if a vaccine invokes a strong antibody response, it will therefore protect you from catching, spreading, or getting sick from an illness is a faulty inference based on false premises. There are two key reasons why equating antibody production to immunity from disease is a lie: 1. Immune system function involves much more than antibody response. 2. The antibody measured in clinical trials may be irrelevant and/or obsolete to the disease in question.
β€œIf you see a proposal for an electronic money system check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy" Hal Finney, Extropy Magazine (1993) image
The state can obtain your financial records, your location history, your communications metadata, your browsing history, and virtually any other digital information without a warrant or probable cause, merely by issuing a National Security Letter or other administrative demand to the companies that hold this data (3rd party doctrine in the US). These demands often come with gag orders preventing the recipients from even disclosing that they've been served. You can be under total surveillance and never know it, with no judicial oversight, no opportunity to contest the intrusion, no recourse after the fact. This infrastructure never gets repealed, even if "your guy and your party" are in power. It just expands.
The legal system's treatment of privacy is perhaps its most honest expression of state philosophy, which is there is one law for rulers and another for the ruled, one set of freedoms for those in power and another for those who are subject to power. Privacy for me, transparency for thee. Secrecy when I need it, surveillance when I demand it. The laws protecting state secrecy and criminalizing individual privacy are not contradictions, but they are the coherent expression of a system designed to maximize state power while minimizing the capacity for individual resistance.