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No. I think that given adversity, humans realise when they're on the tipping point of dying and they wake up and sort it out. They did it with the ozone layer problem in the 1980s, and we see that they did it (finally) with covid-19.  So I reckon once the planet gets bad enough, and they have to put dykes up to protect coastal cities from rising sea levels, they will wake up.  Also, I think the air pollution issue certainly is from transport, there were interesting air pollution satellite images from China under covid, all showed massive decreases.  Once corporate sector allows everyone to work from home, there's no need to travel up and down. This thing of driving up and down will stop, it will go down to just logistics/goods transport rather than school, offices, etc.  We are going to go back to the pre-industrial work style period of cottage industry with people working from home and selling crafts, art, services, etc. stuff online.

T he AstraZeneca vaccine has arrived in SA. As my readers know, I have been participating in the trial and have not had significant/noticeable side-effects. The Astra-Zeneca is manufactured in India however its research etc., has been done via Oxford and Wits University in our own country. I last went for a checkup last week and they informed me that 2 of the 2000 participants have become infected with Covid-19 and no significant side-effects reports. Hence it seems successful. 

  How to tell if something is a fake publication Fake publications come in three forms:  prank publications,   predatory publications  and just  plain bad science . For more on predatory publications and how to identify them, please see our earlier post below. An example of an AI that generates prank mathematics publications is  here . On the matter of prank publications, those are generally easier to detect since they make obviously ridiculous claims. However, the ability to detect whether the claims in the publication are indeed ridiculous depends on your academic backround. A particularly notorious case is the Sokal Hoax. In brief, a physicist called Alan Sokal sent a nonsense paper to a humanities journal: "In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to  Social Text , an academic journal of  postmodern   cultural studies . The submission was an experiment to test the journal's  intellectual rigor , and specifically to investigate whether "a ...

  The following are the reasons why the Oxford/AstraZeneca is a good option. ChAdOx1 has been tested in South Africa with our demographic and environmental factors (https://biotechscope.com/oxford-universitys-fridge-stored-covid-19-vaccine-is-90-effective/); ChAdOx1 was tested with the participation of one of our leading universities (Wits) and hence its selection will demonstrate trust of our local academic community and professionals (https://www.wits.ac.za/covid19vaccine/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-trial/); ChAdOx1 does not use mRNA (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/23/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-everything-we-know-so-far), unlike other vaccines, which is causing a lot of fear (ill-founded) about DNA modification in social media, hence driving vaccine resistance (https://www.businessinsider.co.za/by-mid-december-47-of-south-africans-said-they-refuse-a-coronavirus-jab-up-sharply-from-oct-2021-1); ChAdOx1 can be stored in a normal refrigerator and does not require super...

Please read this post. I copy pasted the content here in case you do not have a facebook account. Apologies to the author. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2261225947/permalink/10158367547355948/ Do a quick search for Judy Mikovtz. It’s that simple. She’s been around for years and has the same story every time on multiple issues. It’s not that difficult to do the work to check the facts and source of a theory. Please make even a small effort. If you need more info than that, here it is: About the latest conspiracy video #Plandemic, Sarah Downs, who is a Researcher at RMPRU who investigates pneumococcal diseases at the molecular, epidemiological, clinical and pharmacological levels, writes: “Judy Mikovitz, #plandemic a resource thread: Friends, family, colleagues, people I have met once or twice, that are somewhere in my facebook. COVID19 is rough. It’s wreaking havoc on every sphere of our lives. We feel vulnerable, we want answers and the people we look to for them, don't yet know....

 So I went to the latest visit to the clinic on 18 August. The protocol was to check health status as usual, and issue a new booster vaccine shot. Some mild side effects like swelling, sensitivity and slightly raised temperature (37 deg C). Otherwise all seems well. India is going with this vaccine too:  https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/indians-free-shot-coronavirus-vaccine-73-days-oxford-vaccine-icmr-serum-institute-of-india-1714096-2020-08-23