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Jun 29, 2022Liked by Lawrence Butts

I haven't seen it but I was thinking just yesterday of a movie I had seen bits and pieces of a few years back, "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" (2012) with Steve Carrell. Then there's "Children of Men" in 2006 and I guess "On the Beach" from 1959 has a similar theme.

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It’s a rainy day where I am. Time for a cup of tea and I’ll check it out.

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Lawrence Butts

Lawrence, I am not on twitter anymore but ethical skeptic just posted some awful numbers... Cancer deaths are at 8.9 sigma, and non covid natural deaths are at 6.2 signma highs..I think this is the link:

https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1554936515544973314?fbclid=IwAR39WKRrDrRMvlL1cJBFOoHe-ckPM88ZwAb54LPpEfDqSk3z537uhOR-BdI

We have trees falling in the forest, but no one can hear them....

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Prior to 2020 Moderna had done several human trials using mRNA vaccines that, I believe, utilize a similar lipid nanoparticle to the ones used for their COVID one. Here are all the completed ones:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03325075?term=NCT03325075&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03810690?term=NCT03810690&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03345043?term=NCT03345043&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03392389?term=NCT03392389&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03392389?term=NCT03392389&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03014089?term=NCT03014089&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03382405?term=NCT03382405&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03345043?term=NCT03345043&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03484767?term=NCT03484767&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04064905?term=NCT04064905&rank=1

Some of these studies weren't completed until 2020 or 2021, while others started as early as 2016 and ended in 2018 or 2019. Each has only around 100 or so trial participants but surely there are enough survivors among them that it shouldn't be too difficult to find one to do an op-ed to assure all the vaccine hesitant that the mRNA platform is proven not to have a 100% death rate after 2-5 years at least. (Though even if that is the case for the vaccines here made for viruses such as influenza, cytomegalovirus and Chikungunya it wouldn't mean that the mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 is safe given the hazards peculiar to the novel spike protein)

Surely they can dredge up at least one survivor that was given one of these shots five or six years ago that isn't maimed or debilitated with severe vaccine injuries?

None of the research for these studies has been published... so until it is, we should all assume the worst.

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Jun 30, 2022Liked by Lawrence Butts

Watched it last night. I think it would have been more horrifying if it had started when the die off occurred. There was too much distance for me. I like doing my own thing, so I'm not terrified of that. I'd probably take it as a challenge to stay alive.

Children of Men affected me much more.

Has anyone seen any reports on people who had c19 prior to getting the vaxx? I've got two in my immediate family and they haven't caught it again and seem to be doing ok.

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Jun 29, 2022Liked by Lawrence Butts

Is this going to be like the classic line from the BBC comedy - when they actually made comedies - 'Red Dwarf'?

"Everybody's dead Dave!"

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I watched it yesterday. I need to watch it one more time. Most of us like routines. Del cleaned houses and had library work. There is a bit more to it than that as we go. He was by himself and he was used to that, he was ok with it. Then someone crashes into his life. This was quite a fascinating movie and had well-known actors. I don't understand some parts so I'll watch it one more time and pay closer attention. Also, it helps to just roll with it, don't try to rewrite it as you watch.

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Dec 30, 2022Liked by Lawrence Butts

Or Will Smith's I Am Legend. ... very topical to where we are...and where, sadly we are going.

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Lawrence Butts

Lawrence, we we talking about this movie and I told you I turned it off because of the dog? If so reply, I got it finished. tonite. And it is kinda good....I figured it out and I'd like to talk with you again?

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Jul 29, 2022Liked by Lawrence Butts

Lawrence, watched up until she found the dog. I am a . Love it but have to stop now, I am lonely and the dog just killed me...

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Watched it last night. The visuals are fantastic, but the soundtrack called attention to itself too often. I kept thinking of it as the perfect sequal to Don't Look Up (when Jonah is the only one left in the White House) and what would he have done, but what the Dr in California did. This movie seemed far ahead in its vision. "Make sure to wear your mask" to "everyone wants to forget the past" to come. The shift in the film with the kiss was quite a jolt out of what seemed like a sleepy comedy, foreshadowed by showing the mark on her neck, what she has hidden. Then, the ending, driving through happy land of zombies. Yep, that's post-reset.

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Jul 6, 2022·edited Jul 6, 2022Liked by Lawrence Butts

It was a neat premise. Either coping with the tragedy head on or relying on science to ease your pain. It seems to me being busy and rebuilding would be the best therapy instead of mind alterning technology. Our ancestors had to deal with continuous tradegies. Life was hard compared to our modern leisure society so it is in our dna to adapt.

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Watched it on your recommendation. A very striking film. I will watch it again because as someone obsessed with sound/music, the one main thing that struck me was the skill in which sounds were created, meaning: barely audible tones/atmospheres, conveying the empty world, the whole Tarkovsky-like thing going on. I feel that the appearance, and then DISappearance, of the dog, has more depth to it than I currently surmise. There were some truly frightening moments. Latest estimate was 500 million worldwide might be dead/seriously disabled because of this thing. Way off base? Perhaps. But what I see in this movie "fantasy" land corresponds to what I see in today's reality more than I care to admit.

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Never heard of it. I don't know how I'll ever get to see it, I have no type of streaming services and can't afford them in the future either. It sounds creepy. I will go read about the plot.

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Wish I had a sign-in for Amazon Prime to watch this.

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Lawrence, watched up until she found the dog. I am a . Love it but have to stop now, I am lonely and the dog just killed me...

PS. I will try again tomorrow, pick up from there.

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