Virus#26: Chapter 26 Vlad the Impaler becomes TSAR: Putin and Holy Mother Russia

Chapter 26 “Vlad the Impaler Becomes TSAR! Putin and holy mother Russia”

As Russia was pounded by COVIDs its poor medical system collapsed quickly leading to a huge death count. Perpetual President Putin had many physicians daring to criticize the Russian medical system unfortunately fall out of windows to their death. The much-touted Russian COVID vaccine “Sputnik” which the Russian government had boasted a 97% success rate was in fact as documented by other countries having an efficacy rate of just over 50%.

It was during the 2021 vicious second wave of COVID-19 in the midst of massive social unrest that Putin made his classical Russian move of adoration and comfort with absolute control and the arrest of any media he hadn’t already murdered or arrested. Siberia would soon be so full of malcontents it would have to turn its “No Vacancy” signs on.

To divert attention from a medical system that had fallen into disrepair he declared in 2022 Mother Russia and the Holy Russian Orthodox Church a necessity to defeat the unholy COVID-19 and declared himself the new Tsar of Russia with full support of the Russian Orthodox church. A grand coronation and millions of free vodka bottles were handed out to the masses. His trusted oligarch compadres were designated as counts and given political control over various regions of the country.

After the collapse of communism how did billions of dollars of state enterprises end up in the hands of a few oligarchs? Crime, corruption and theft of state property guided by Vlad the Impaler. My Russian cardiologist friends used this term after a few shots of vodka at international cardiologist’s conventions because opposition to Tsar Putin meant death not necessarily by impaling but death nonetheless. His credentials as former KGB head, protection of his clique of loyal oligarchs and perpetual leader of the government took us back to the good old days of Tsarist Russia.

Vlad’s ascension into the Holy Leader of Mother Russia did not quell the rising COVID death rate but insulated him against any criticism as the bearded priests of Russian Orthodoxy reinforced his holy presence.

Putin had been moving toward godliness over the past few years and he had finally attained it. A beautiful Stalinist movement combined with a true Rasputinistic character. A devil in revisionist Russian history. If you think Putin looked rugged bare chested on a horse he looked positively regal with his crown.

Virus#26: Donald J. Trump Assassinated

Chapter 25 “COVID political upheavals: Donald J. Trump assassinated.”

By the time the 4 waves of COVID thundered through the globe many political leaders had been assassinated primarily by family members of the fatalities. The common thread of the assassinations was based on political mismanagement and hatred.

As the former President of the United States that had witnessed close to 400,000 fatalities by the time the 2020 November presidential elections were in swing the Orange Toad refused any responsibility whatsoever for the American death count. At one point he boasted we have 5 cases and we are on top of it. With civil unrest burning up the nation it was noticeably clear he was insane.

That didn’t work so Trump blamed the Chinese in a great Wuhan cover-up. Then he blamed the WHO. Then he blamed Sleepy Joe Biden Then CNN. Then Fauci.  A master of the blame game? Or a stupid incompetent nasty television personality that couldn’t run any of his businesses without them declaring bankruptcy and screwing thousands of contractors. A successful businessman my ass! A successful President well no comment required.

Well as Donald J. Trump was golfing at Merde Lago in Florida in 2025, and cheating terribly with his scorecard, there was a secret service agent Buster Scruggs who walked up to Trump as he was taking the approach shot to the 18th hole and opened his jacket full of explosives packed in Lysol wipes containers and said stick these wipes up your ass. The Trumpster and his wife (and poor Baron ) who were in the golf cart were splattered all over it. Scruggs family had drunk a bottle or two of Lysol so yes Scruggs was a bit pissed off!

America continued its bloody thirst for presidential assassinations but this time there was joy. As the casket of the doubly impeached Presidential casket was drawn to a pauper’s grave in Newark, New Jersey there was a street party on the funeral route with empty liquor bottles thrown at the hearse. A send-off wholeheartedly deserved.

As for me I am so overwhelmed with grief I CAN’T BREATHE! The Hemorrhoid former President will be remembered as a crude piece of shit in American history.

“Love Child”: Toronto 18th Annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival Canada

“Love Child” is not some X rated film!

I could recite a ream of dates and stories to go with the documentary but I will let you take that journey as sometimes I prefer to go to the essence of the story told in the documentary.

Leila and Sahand are two Iranians who had an extra-marital affair in Iran and have a child out of wedlock, a boy called Mani.

Both are teachers.

Leila’s husband is an abusive rehab failure that beats his wife and after three years of marriage it has not been consummated. At the end of her wits she meets and falls in love with fellow teacher Sahand who is also a part time spy for the Iranian secret police.

In “progressive” Iran a Muslim theocracy rules the roost where adulterous women may be stoned to death and her fellow sinner could be hung in a football stadium like Christians be thrown to the lions in the Roman Colosseum.

Sahand and Leila flee Iran to Turkey in fear of their life and spend seven years trying to get processed by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Ankara so they can be released as refugees to any country willing to accept them.

Leila and Sahand eventually obtain their Iranian divorces so they are now a real family with a good crack at immigration from Turkey and finally Sahand is accepted by UNHCR after Leila and Mina. Sahand and Leila marry in Turkey so as a family it is beginning to look good but for some reason UNHCR now states they are ineligible to be sent to a safe country. It would seem if Sahand could establish he did work for the Iranian secret police he might have had a better chance at getting the family out of Turkey. Yes, and he can easily establish that!

I have no objection for strict and fair immigration policies provided they have a solid fabric of compassion and have no bleeding heart for those who jump the line, illegally enter a country then hope to sneak through to another country or somehow get an amnesty in the country they illegally arrived in.

Leila and Sahand played it by the book and after 7 years of trying they are still in Turkey and have filed two complaints against the UNHCR for mishandling their case. One can’t debate that the fact that Sahand worked for a secret police force in a country that has a shameful human rights record may have been a factor working against him.

I am not making any value judgements here but the documentary is priceless in that it very clearly documents the fact that refugees may experience terror, guilt, frustration, happiness, hope, despair and anger which is perhaps the strongest part of the documentary.

This 2019 Danish documentary is 112 minutes in length and is in several languages with English subtitles. A film by Eva Mulvad. This is a FREE FILM and will be screened virtually throughout Canada but you’ll need to reserve tickets at the Ted Rogers Cinema Website. The festival runs from February 18-22.

See the trailer here https://www.dropbox.com/s/8lwgvmvjo954804/Love%20Child%20-%20Trailer%20%28720p%20with%2025fps%29.mp4?dl=0

Poetry Corner: The forgotten COVID long haulers

The forgotten COVID long haulers

No I am not talking about long distance truckers
but those who were COVID vaccinated and left with many side effects from the vaccine
guaranteed no liability by the countries in which their vaccine was distributed was obscene

The politico-medico jumping for joy claiming the vaccine was the light at the end of the tunnel
proved in large part to be bullshit to be drained through a funnel

There were many that had side effects that made them look like the had been hit by a stroke
Slurred speech and horribly twisted limbs
obviously no more trips to the gyms

Some suffered cognitive impairment
was this due to vaccine fast track development by their government?

Some with cognitive impairment at the time of the jab
quickly developed advanced Alzheimer’s and ended up dead on a stainless steel slab

Others simply had difficulty in walking and talking
Neither government nor vaccine manufacturer in terms of any acceptance of liability was balking.

As herd immunity was developed the politico-medico elites were back slapping
of their fame and re-election they were mapping

Apparently, no funds for millions of unfortunates for rehabilitation
left behind at the victim’s station

The long haulers were quickly forgotten by the politico-medico elite that brought the numbers down
and without compassion let the long haulers drown

Robert K. Stephen

Vitrus#26: “The forgotten long haulers”

Chapter 24 “The forgotten long haulers”

Long haulers are those COVID-19 infected who “recovered” from their infection. However, I use the term “recovery” with much trepidation for about 65% of the lang haulers developed a myriad of side effects and even to this day we physicians are uncertain why these side effects arose. 38% of the vaccinated became long haulers.

The most common side-effect was some degree of cognitive impairment. For example, one of my colleagues had a patient that at one moment knew they had a dog then perhaps minutes later they had no idea what a dog was.

In some cases it was as if a stroke had crippled these unfortunate people with slurred speech and twisted and uncooperative limbs. Those already afflicted with cognitive impairment were sent quickly reeling into Alzheimer’s.

Those vaccinated with poor eyesight suddenly found themselves with glaucoma and those with essential tremor quickly developed Parkinson’s disease.

I won’t bore you with long list of side effects of vaccines which the politico-medico elite was crowing about but that elite knew not how to remedy their debilitating effects.

I mean at one point they were rejoicing at the bright light at the end of the tunnel being the vaccine but in the end it was not so bright for many. And the short-sighted politico-medico elite who were slapping themselves on the back for “creating herd immunity” quickly, as such elites are prone to do, failed to provide funds for rehabilitation clinics for millions globally that needed medical assistance. Ah like the short-sighted capitalist executive looking for short term gain (and huge incentive payments) they accomplished the goal wreaking anxiety, depression, sexual and physical abuse, substance abuse and suicide and possible permanent bodily damage to many of the vaccinated. But in the media it was all hail to the conquering heroes! And Big Pharma with a no liability for the vaccines granted to it by governments of countries where the vaccine was distributed was laughing all the way to the bank making even more money developing drugs to control the secondary plague they had created.

Virus#26:Chapter 23: the great COVID hope: Vaccine!

Chapter 23: “the great COVID hope; VACCINE!”

I can’t resist reminiscing to the 1970’s or perhaps the late 1980’s where in boxing there was the concept of the “Great White Hope” that fantasized a Caucasian could rise from the ashes of Jack Dempsey and override Cassius Clay and Sony Liston and defeat an African American (or negro as the term was used in those days) in the boxing ring for heavyweight champion of the world. Well the last great white hope to fight Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) was Jerry Quarry and he was knocked out.

Well if COVID was in the boxing world the great white hope would be a vaccine.

It never was developed for SARS or MERS both of which were corona viruses but somehow wistful thinking and billions of dollars were invested in the search for the vaccine and the fortunes it would bring to any successful developer of one and its investors! And the best thing for Big Pharma as that governments guaranteed them no liability for any negative consequences of the vaccine. A free ride to enormous profits.

Billions of people placed the hope a vaccine would be developed and in fact spurred on by optimistic medicos, politicos and with the media they almost expected it.

As a medico I note the bravado but look at it this way and that is billions have been spent for half a century looking for a cure to cancer without success. However people really couldn’t be willing to accept the miserably poor record of vaccines for the simple influenza. They exhibited a blind faith in medicine to “save the world”. Medical science was at a dead end to discover even a single effective drug for Alzheimer’s so why assume with certainty a vaccine could be developed for COVID? Perhaps for me as a physician was the public’s confidence in BIG PHARMA to deliver a BIG CURE! Perhaps this was a result of watching to many American TV channels that thrived and relied on Big Pharma for advertising revenue with its peddling of drugs for every ailment.

This was going to be a Big Pharma moment enriching them and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation beyond all belief.

Sadly despite billions filtered to Big Pharma for vaccine research they came up empty handed much to the despair of investors and a deluded population. Well sort of empty handed. A vaccine was developed that killed thousands in side effects as it was rushed to production throughout the world without full clinical trials. Yes initially it did have a good efficacy rate in the short term with a caveat that no long term study had been undertaken. It also dropped in efficacy to as low as 32% as 86 more mutations of the virus developed  during the COVIDs. Within 2 years of vaccination a horrendous rash of cognitive failures afflicted the vaccinated and for the elderly or any one experiencing the beginning of cognitive decline the vaccines were a free pass into the world of Alzheimer’s.

Virus#26; Chapter 22″lessons learnt from the COVIDs: Aboriginals fall again to disease

Chapter 22 “Lessons learnt from the COVIDs; Aboriginals fall again to disease”

My knowledge of the aboriginal peoples of North America was perhaps greater than most as I did a research paper for the “Canadian Cardiological Review” on cardiac disease amongst the Canadian aboriginal community or First Nations” if that is more politically correct.

Cardiac disease was higher than the national average primarily caused by substandard housing, poor diet, substance abuse, lack of preventive medical care and contaminated drinking water all leading to a seriously compromised immune system.

Well this poor immune system assisted COVID in decimating aboriginal populations in Canada and in New Zealand, Australia, Brazil and the United States.80% seemed to be the final COVID kill rate. At least intentional infection of the aboriginal community as was the case with smallpox genocide in Canada could not be blamed.

The result of the carnage was a rebirth of the traditional aboriginal way of life and customs which meant staying far away as possible from “civilization” which all said and done was a potential step in the right direction.

VIRUS#26: Chapter 21:lessons learnt from the COVIDs: more domestic and sexual abuse and increased mental illness

Chapter 21 “lessons learnt from the COVIDs: more domestic and sexual abuse and increased mental illness”

If you are being bashed around and sexually abused at home and COVID has you locked down at home you are really in a prison cell. My friends in our emergency ward at my hospital told me of increased admissions caused by domestic and sexual abuse.

Calls to abuse hotlines dramatically increased throughout any country having such lines. These increases were first documented with Ebola outbreaks in Africa and now in North America and Europe. And with nowhere for the abused to go the vicious circle spun around with more victims of the lockdown that singly focused on physical health ignoring until late in the game the horrific psychological trauma and mental illness triggered by the lockdowns. At what point did the victims of abuse figure in the statistical obsession with infections and deaths?

Those who are abused may not have access to cellphones or afraid to use them least they be caught and pummeled and mauled.

Another appalling statistic was the amount of mental illness cultivated by COVID lockdowns. Imagine being out of work because you weren’t working in an open essential business. Where is your next meal coming from, will you find a job again, can you pay your credit card bills and mortgage payments. And perhaps just too much time to think about these unpleasant thoughts. At one point in the tame initial wave of COVID-19 in Canada some 64% of respondents to a poll admitted they were frightened to leave their home. That rose to 96% as the second wave of COVID-19 in 2021 ripped through the country.

Isolation and quarantine also lead to increased suicides, panic attacks, post traumatic stress disorder and depression. At the end of the COVIDs the full extent of increased mental illness was perhaps as cruel and devastating as the physical statistics of deaths and infections. While governments spent to bankruptcy to placate social unrest at least liquor and cannabis sales soared bringing desperately needed revenue but creating the wreckage of substance abuse. Again not that readily calculable like infections and deaths it was largely ignored by the politicos, medicos and media but it left many mangled in its wake

“Dear Comrades!” The great contradictions of Communism

Strikers at the locomotive plant and their comrades for nearby factories take to the street

I clicked with this movie very quickly just reading the promotional material send about it with a link to the film. You might say I have lived through part of it having spent about a year of my life in the Eastern Block or often referred to as the Communist Block of Eastern Europe. I have waited in food lines, been tailed by police, meet with families of defectors to the West, been to the Berlin Wall, had my Canadian passport thrown in my face by an East German border guard because my middle name is “Kennedy” and most importantly have seen the vast privileges given to Communist Party members. In Bucharest my student friend played tennis with the son of the Minister of Energy for Romania so we managed to be served East German beer in big tubs full of ice while less well connected citizens were only able to order vile Romanian beer.

In “Dear Comrades” the Russian Communist system is exposed to many viewers who may think it shocking and eye-opening. With my travel experiences and political science studies of Eastern Europe this film simply is an affirmation of what I have seen and experienced.

If you are a Communist Party member of high enough standing you received better housing, better access to food, good vacations and were members of a privileged caste.

Lyudmila (perfectly played by Julia Vysotskaya)is a devout Communist Party member working at the local committee in 1962 USSR in a smaller provincial town. And the unheard of happens. The local locomotive factory goes on strike. The higher ups are scandalized with a strike by workers in a Communist state where a supposed dictatorship of the proletariat existed but in reality it is the dictatorship of the Communist Party.

The workers are angered by increased food prices and a cut in wages and are not swayed by Party propaganda that this is temporary and will soon result in an abundance of food.

Lyudmila’s daughter Svetka works at the factory and gets caught up the strikers. Word quickly reaches Moscow and the military and KGB are sent in to control the matter but the strikers join with workers at other factories and march into town smashing and trashing the Local Committee offices.

Two higher up Committee members are sent into town under orders of Comrade Khrushchev and the army locks down the town. The KGB have a team of spies collecting information on the “instigators”. The mob is told to depart or they will be fired on by the army despite the fact the constitution of the USSR forbids the Soviet army to fire on its own citizens. We do see them firing in the air but there are countless dead and wounded. The KGB snipers were busy at work.

It is quite clear Moscow is running the show. Even the casualty count is officially 8 but scores of other bodies have been whisked to other towns and buried in unmarked graves. The entire town is forced to sign “secrecy documents” more or less saying if you tell anyone about what happened in this town you are as good as dead. The dictatorship of the Party is absolute so the Party thinks. But when a student came up to me in a bar in Poland and whispered to me, “I love Capitalism” he wasn’t telling me anything new. The tired sarcasm and sickness of being lied to and cheated by the Communist Party acts like a glaring spotlight from the Berlin Wall at night.

How would I describe this film aside from a scathing attack on communism it might be a bit of comedy, sarcasm, mockery and a very great tragedy. Russians murdering Russians is not the direction Lenin and Karl Marx could have envisaged neither could they foresee the rise of dictator and mass murderer Stalin.

Is Lyudmila’s experience and incorrectly perceived strategy open her eyes to the corruption of the Communist Party? While swigging vodka and lamenting her perceived tragedy she states she wished Stalin were still alive as “We can’t do it without him.”

Remember when the Berlin Wall fell and the property of the state mysteriously ended up in the hands of the oligarchs there were many older Russians wishing for the “stability” of Stalinism.

One wonders now with a President in perpetual power and opposition members and journalists murdered or poisoned has anything changed from Tsarist days which brought about such desperate political conditions it gave rise to Communism.

A stark black and white film well directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Would a movie about current political conditions be made these days in Russia?

You can see the trailer here http://www.filmswelike.com/films/dear-comrades

The film is the Russian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy awards. It opens virtually on February 5th at TIFF Bell Lightbox and then as of February 12th at select cinemas throughout Canada.

Grab your oaked Chardonnay and buttered popcorn and settle down for a two hour film in Russian with English subtitles. On the other hand if you have some caviar and vodka on hand……..

Poetry Corner “Half in a Daze”

              Half In a Daze

Now than Pence and Trump are gone is good news
but hours in front of CNN anti-Trump television spews
it’s not normal suddenly seeing an absence vitriol and hate
my poor mind feels like it is being flushed down the sewer grate
it’s back to murder and wars
which for me is the bores
hopefully my mind will become used to all the American calmness and civilities
at least there are reruns of the “Beverly Hillbillies ”

to refocus by attention
for if not I’ll be subject to mental detention
in the meantime I’m praying that tubby little golfer won’t be back in 2024
I suppose I have had too much negative excitement and can’t take more