Category: Pat’s Opinions

Received from a friend from another forum. What are your thoughts?

Tort;

You have been around a while and know that I’m very political, have been for years. Always concerned about what’s gonna happen with politics, what I can do to stop or slow it, etc. Like you and many of our friends. That POV was predicated on the theory of a reasonable world and a reasonable society, in which reasonable people would make reasonable decisions. In May 2020, as major metros around the nation burned and were looted bare, I said to myself: “no reasonable nation would elect the party that did this”. And then later that year, when the election was stolen in broad daylight, and the people who did so all but gloated about it in our faces, I thought “no reasonable court would let this stand, we’ve got the receipts!” When the courts decided they didn’t want to oppose the coup, and we all stood around asking ourselves “what next”, the true picture of the reality in America today came into view.

In a nation without fair elections, political engagement is at best a waste of time. In a nation where the levers of seemingly unfettered power are now permanently in the hands of the Far Left, political engagement is an unnecessary risk. There is no value in peaceful, honest engagement on political matters anymore, unless that energy leads to violent and subversive engagement (something I am unwilling to do), because the contract has been broken.

Forget about the Constitution. It was a grand experiment in freedom, but it is clear to me now that this was always inevitable. Just as many sons have been unworthy of the inheritance of their forebears, eventually there always comes a generation that is unable or unwilling to acquit themselves like men, and the process must begin again. But there will be a transitionary period, a period in which you will be particularly concerned for your family’s safety, to preserve your legacy into the future. And this is where our energies should be focused.

Soviet-style gulags are the endgame, but there’s a lot of roadway still between here and there. Cancel culture will be used to freeze us out of every segment of society that we need to interface with in order to live a normal, modern life. I know this and we talk about this sort of thing all the time, but I am spending some extra time this year to make a comprehensive list of all the goods, services, and utilities we use and need to live “normally”, so I can set plans in motion to maintain them as independently as possible. Before they start going house to house, they will start by preventing you from accessing certain services, they’ll make your goods more expensive, they’ll make it harder for you to work, to travel. They will try to weaken you financially. You WILL be cancelled. You WILL be un-personed. Like the Jews of 1930’s Germany, don’t just hope the problem goes away. It does go away, but not without blood. Prepare yourself now. Disengage from meaningless political games that are going nowhere. Survive.

But yelling about it on the political forums or on Facebook ain’t gonna help you. It’s not gonna help me either. We have entered a new phase in American history, and we need to recognize that, and take what positive action we can to insulate us from what’s coming instead of vainly pouring our energy into a dead end.

Here is what my family is doing.

1. Cutting back on political posting and commenting on social media by at least 90%
2. Take steps to disentangle yourself from Big Tech generally as much as possible
3. Make a list of goods/services/utilities/capabilities you would not want to live without. Not just in terms of survival, but in terms of living as close to normally as possible. Evaluate them individually, assessing how important that item is, how difficult it would be to replicate in a self-reliance context, and make a plan to address it if feasible.
4. Stop worrying about rising up and fighting a revolution, or when the inevitable fascist crackdown is coming.. Stop worrying about when it’s gonna be. If or when the time is right, you’ll know. It’s not up to you. It’s up to God. It is foolish to imagine we are in control of such things. We have so little control over even our own lives. Focus on that, the important things at home staring you in the face already, instead of putting your head in the clouds worrying about matters our hands cannot affect.
5. I observe that God has a plan for things big and small, and so I am keeping my powder dry, and making ready, so that if I have any part to play, I will not find myself unprepared to do so.

Screaming about politics online produces no value: at the end of each rant, my preps have not grown, my capabilities have not increased. I spent many years talking. But now, I say: enough talk. This is the last call. There’s something dark coming over the horizon, and we’re going to meet it whether we are ready for it or not. Make sure you are.

There is much wisdom here. Take due notice thereof and govern yourself accordingly.

This is taken from the Moderna website. Do your own due dilligence.

Our Operating System
Recognizing the broad potential of mRNA science, we set out to create an mRNA technology platform that functions very much like an operating system on a computer. It is designed so that it can plug and play interchangeably with different programs. In our case, the “program” or “app” is our mRNA drug – the unique mRNA sequence that codes for a protein.

We have a dedicated team of several hundred scientists and engineers solely focused on advancing Moderna’s platform technology. They are organized around key disciplines and work in an integrated fashion to advance knowledge surrounding mRNA science and solve for challenges that are unique to mRNA drug development. Some of these disciplines include mRNA biology, chemistry, formulation & delivery, bioinformatics and protein engineering.

Our mRNA Medicines
– The ‘Software of Life’When we have a concept for a new mRNA medicine and begin research, fundamental components are already in place.
Generally, the only thing that changes from one potential mRNA medicine to another is the coding region – the actual genetic code that instructs ribosomes to make protein. Utilizing these instruction sets gives our investigational mRNA medicines a software-like quality. We also have the ability to combine different mRNA sequences encoding for different proteins in a single mRNA investigational medicine.

We are leveraging the flexibility afforded by our platform and the fundamental role mRNA plays in protein synthesis to pursue mRNA medicines for a broad spectrum of diseases.

Overcoming Key Challenges
Using mRNA to create medicines is a complex undertaking and requires overcoming novel scientific and technical challenges. We need to get the mRNA into the targeted tissue and cells while evading the immune system. If the immune system is triggered, the resultant response may limit protein production and, thus, limit the therapeutic benefit of mRNA medicines.
We also need ribosomes to think the mRNA was produced naturally, so they can accurately read the instructions to produce the right protein. And we need to ensure the cells express enough of the protein to have the desired therapeutic effect.

SOURCE:https://www.modernatx.com/mrna-technology/mrna-platform-enabling-drug-discovery-development