Given
the enormous amount of time the Canadian media, following the lead from their
US counterparts, spend bad-mouthing Russia, I really don’t expect the suggestion
I am going to make here will go anywhere.
But
I’ll make it anyway. It seems like a prudent and practical thing to do.
With
the bad faith and runaround from our current vaccine ‘non-suppliers’, I think
we Canadians have the right to ask our government to look elsewhere for
possible vaccines. And where might that be?
Eastward,
to Russia. Of
course I realize that some of you may want to throw up at the mere suggestion.
I understand. After all, how can our government be expected to buy anything as
important as a life-saving vaccine from a country we’ve been taught to fear as
an enemy.
On
the other hand, if that fear can be recognized as a disadvantage to the health
and well-being of our nation, this fear and aversion might be worth revising in
the light of the pandemic. But even if Canada somehow managed to overcome the
political fear and distrust of Russia, how do we know the vaccine is
safe?
Well,
The Lancet, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world recently
announced the “Sputnik V” vaccine provides more than 90% immunity with
apparently minimal side affects. This is significantly better than the Oxford/AstraZenca
vaccine (70%) developed the UK. Both vaccines use the same adenovirus-based
technology, but currently only one has been authorized and is coming to Canada –
even though it is much less effective.
Twenty-one
different countries since December have granted emergency use authorization of
the Sputnik V vaccine, including Israel and United Arab Emirates. EU diplomats in
Moscow have been given the green light to receive the vaccine, and mainstream
media is starting to report on the countries lining up to distribute and/or
make the vaccine, including Brazil and India.
I
would personally feel much relieved if Sputnik V could be added to Canada’s
arsenal of options, poor as they have been, and politics be dammed. Next time.
I
started this post last week to continue investigating the Great Reset, you
know, that great world plan the elite bankers and European leaders have in
store for the western bankrupt world. How ever, my attention was momentarily stayed, like many others,
by the furor surrounding the Great Stock Market Upset.
I have never owned a stock in my entire long risk-taking
life. I have rarely had enough money that might even tempt me to throw it away
on the gambling casinos of the stock market. The immediate needs of food,
shelter, education for kids kept my attention safely away from these kinds of
ventures. However, the past couple of weeks have rather riveted my attention to
what is happening in the hedge fund stock markets. Of course I am talking about
that group of individuals, the ‘Reddits’, who are mostly young, male,
unemployed or marginally employed, and are extremely tech savvy. They also, or
at least some of them, appear to have a simmering resentment against stock
short sellers.
Short sellers are those who come together, also as a group,
pick out a struggling company and place a bet that the company will fail. They
even help the company’s failure along by using media to inform everybody in the
market that the company is in trouble which further drives the price down. When
the company’s stock goes down far enough, and is facing bankruptcy, the
shorters cash in their bets. Then when the company is all but destroyed, the
short sellers start bidding the company price back up again in order to get it
into the position of being sufficiently well enough, but not too well, to short
it again. Wonderful sport, these short squeeze vultures, who are the financial
elites of wall street. So enter those with time on their hands, some having
lost jobs during the pandemic or memories of being teenagers when their parents
lost their homes during the 2008 blood letting.
They decided to pool their resources and enter the stock
market world and try to short the shorters. They found a flailing company that
was being shorted by the hedge fund managers and began to buy the failing stock
GameStop. But the Reddits plan was different. When the stock went up due to
their own buying they didn’t cash out. They just kept buying and as more people
piled in, the stock kept going up. The shorters began to sweat and wound up
losing a great deal of money.
Now
they are very angry. They are appealing to the new American government to do
something about these upstarts, although the Reddits did nothing illegal. They
simply outwitted the shorters – they won a rigged game, at least temporarily.
Will the Biden government oblige? Will they come up with some new plan to protect
their big donor short sellers? Probably. We’ll see what the Reddits do next, or people like them who are using the power of distributed virtual networks to unsettle the status quo.
And what effect, if any, they might have on the Great Reset. Next time.
