DEEP SCRATCH

Tag: Corona Slayer

  • An Open Letter To The Dutch Government, Health Ministry And Farm Ministry.

    “Europe has an estimated 2750 mink farms and produces more than 27 million pelts per year.–Marion Koopmans.

    Close the fur farms now, gesloten!
    Track trace and isolate every single mink mutation immediately
    Why have you not closed the farms and culled the Mink?
    Based on what is happening in Denmark
    What happened in May in Holland!
    Why are ANY mink farms open? How, why?
    Who’s responsible
    Who’s irresponsible?
    Ms. Schouten can you hear me?

    Why are so many awful Mink farms here
    In the first place?
    Why does Holland lead Mink trade
    To supply demand for China?
    How do you allow it in the first place
    Before the Mink-Human Covid
    Chimera outbreak?

    I’m outraged at the Dutch government and
    Health authority and Farm Ministry for a lack of
    Responsibility toward this. Protect the people?

    Do you understand the danger here?
    Besides the cruel trade in itself
    You could be helping Covid19 mutate and
    Spread, a mutation that may not be
    Suppressed by the vaccine
    Herd immunity is out the window again.

    Your unwillingness to act until Spring 2021
    Reflects on your selfish collective failure, again.
    Your inability to mandate masks
    Has led to more death
    Self inflated exceptionalism endangers all.

    Note, Mink are traded LEGALLY in Holland
    For their pelts, you monsters condone this?
    What kind of slave-trade mentality?

    I’m angry not because you’re irresponsible 
    Toward the health of your Dutch subjects, but
    That the mutating virus could spread
    To the rest of the planet. We just don’t know.
    But YOU claim to know better, Mr. Rutte. 

    “Despite enhanced biosecurity, early warning surveillance and immediate culling of infected farms, transmission occurred between mink farms in three big transmission clusters with unknown modes of transmission.”B. Oude Munnink.

    –Thelonious Mink.

    P.s I’d be willing to work with responsible individuals toward helping solve this massive public health crisis. Starting with a team to begin lobbying for the culling and closure, permanently, of all Mink farms anywhere! But I’ll probably end up working at Feebo. Oh well, happy holidays. 

    “Legislation is being prepared to close all mink farms early on in 2021. This is stated in a letter to Parliament dated 11 November.” – https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/Bioveterinary-Research/show-bvr/COVID-19-detected-on-two-mink-farms.htm

    From Dutch News: “So far farm minister Carola Schouten has resisted calls for a mass cull of all mink on Dutch fur farms, even though scientists said in September that at least 66 fur farm workers and their family members have been infected with coronavirus. The team used genome sequencing to trace the spread of the virus between mink, cats and humans and found that 66 people and 11 cats all had a ‘mink variety’ of the virus.”

    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/11/dutch-mink-farms-in-spotlight-again-after-mutant-covid-virus-found-in-denmark/

    “Mink belong to the Mustelidae family, which includes ferrets that have been used as an animal model owing to their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2.6 Efficient transmission between ferrets has been shown in experimental infections, with spread to naive animals through direct contact but also through indirect airborne spread.7 According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Europe has an estimated 2750 mink farms and produces more than 27 million pelts per year. As farmed minks are kept in large groups and housed in pens in wire cages with bedding that generates a lot of dust, there is ample opportunity for transmission once the virus is introduced on the farms. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30912-9/fulltext

    Despite enhanced biosecurity, early warning surveillance and immediate culling of infected farms, transmission occurred between mink farms in three big transmission clusters with unknown modes of transmission. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of the tested mink farm residents, employees and/or contacts had evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Where whole genomes were available, these persons were infected with strains with an animal sequence signature, providing evidence of animal to human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 within mink farms.
    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/11/09/science.abe5901

  • SECOND WAVE COMING – SQUINTIN QUARANTINO

    At central station, with a note for the nation
    You’re testin’ my patience, we doe’ need no more patients
    It’s just simple I ask, not a difficult task
    Just wash your grubby hands and then put on a mask
    If you…think it a hoax, then you endanger our folks
    Political purists want cash from the tourists
    Don’t say the word, that rhymes bird community
    I might spill some verbs and break word immunity
    You choose…wealth over health, we choose Math over death
    Exorcising rights, with my last dying breath
    I walk with a waddle, like the drunken Penguino
    Some call me fly…others Squintin Quarantino.

    She…did all the summin’… I did the drummin’
    There’s somethin’ brewing, it ain’t the fluin’
    Tourists are coming and the spit balls are going
    My heartbeat is rising, my tongue keeps surprising
    My…songs are running and bong rips are rolling
    Shoppers in droves…so dodge em’ keep strolling
    A lot of dumb tourists, they act like bambino
    I’ll wear a facemask, yes I’m Squintin Quarantino

    I’m… weaving through people, they twisting my nipple
    No masks make me dribble, at the narcissist rabble
    Playing Covid at scrabble, with death you do dabble
    I’m stuck in the middle saying, hey kid skedaddle
    Up the…Gracht with no paddle riding bareback no saddle
    I look at the muddle and just cuddle my bottle
    and we get to the bottom, of the R rate “We got em’
    with all my four hooves, we move over to trott on’
    I’m like Wolfgang Pauli, who dis…covered Neutrino
    Super fly Quark barkin’ Squintin Quarantino

    Liars of Wealth, versus liars of Health
    Put a cap on the Sandwich, put a cap on your mouth
    Put a cap in your ass, in your head in your ear
    You hijack our weed,  make Trillions off beer
    All the financiers can now work from home
    Mum-wage workers, stuck in front Covid zone
    Laws from the Hague, confuse like Cummings they vague
    Can’t run in clogs, from the new airborne plague
    I swim in waves until the end of the fino’
    I spit behind a mask because I’m Squintin Quarantino

    It’s…late in July, second coming from the sky
    In yer mouth, up yer nose in yer’ ear through your eye
    Tiny bacteria, shut down your cafeteria
    You airborne yesterday, chill yer’ hysteria
    It’s…not a big ask, just wear a damn mask
    If I don’t ask it, then your grans in a casket
    Hot drink, you flask it
    Asymptomatic, you mask it.
    Put the lotion, in the basket and your mouth, behind a tight-knit
    Ministers like dinosaurs, I like to call em’ Deano’
    With a T-Rex flexin; this is Squintin Quarantino 

    One small mistake or one big blunder
    You and the city, might go six feet under
    Don’t…sleep and lumber, get up track the number
    Into October November December
    Your…just out of reach, on a towel on a beach
    You’ll hear me at the top of my lungs as I screech
    ….INN COMING here comes the second wave
    I’m…calling to offices households and caves
    Holding up a flag: Wear A Mask Life It Saves
    A Covid Tsunami, will wipe out your army
    A second wave attack will drown folk that’s barmy
    Playin’…Russian roulette with bad spit and sweat
    Bats teach us a lesson but you’re quick to forget
    If we all wear a mask then, the quicker it’s over
    No reliance on horseshoe, charm or four leaf-clover
    I’m…hot like Mohommad eating a RAW Jalapeno
    Listen to my raps kid, I’m Squintin Quarantino

  • FLYPAPERS – CANNABIS WRITINGS

  • DJ STEVE FLY – PANDEMIC TIME

    www.patreon.com/stevefly

    Feat. samples from the TV Series The Stand (Based on the book by Stephen King)

  • My Covid-19 Guidelines For Small Businesses

    Lead By Example

    Hi, rather than perpetually moan and groan everytime I read an article about the impact of Covid-19 on businesses, in particular small hospitality services, I wanted to share my thoughts in the format of some clear bullet points, a mixture of gentle advice and strong recommendations. However much I wish the chaos would all go away, the new reality for us requires forward thinking optimism and criticism, in equal measure. The largest restaurant chains in the world such as McDonald’s, who don’t seem content with their existing Covid-19 safe…drive through are planning to re-open. I can understand it’s extra work and consideration on top stresses for small businesses, but please, don’t let McDonald’s be the only food outlet open for business due to the fact they published some flimsy Covid-19 measures. You can do better!             

    Certification.

    I guess, in the near future, new Health And Safety rules will apply to your business and staff. Better go look them up now, create a Google Alert (Covid-19 Health And Safety) and add your specific location, e.g. in the UK see: https://www.hse.gov.uk/news/coronavirus.html 

    Reconsider existing Health And Safety certifications and the process of gaining them. Did you or your colleagues take a test? What was it like, how might Covid-19 change questions and answers in 2020 and beyond. See the new Remote Auditing from Britsafe here: https://www.britsafe.org/audit-and-consultancy/new-remote-audits-and-consultancy/

    Perhaps go further and begin to formulate your own certification, alone or better yet as a team. Explore ways in which you can improve the efficiency, communication and protection of your business in the new Covid-19 world. If you can prove your methods and processes as a team, raise each others Covid awareness, and if you can record your progress to provide evidence of your actions, you can lead by example. #CoronaHero
    This could potentially make your business more attractive to customers and get you in-line for support…due to leading the field, doing what the government is not. Thinking for yourself. To be clear, these are extra measures on top of whatever current measures are in place.          

    Measures.

    I consider the practical measures as a finite list and I sincerely hope that innovative minds out there will think of alternative materials and methods to further reduce any chance of infection. Please consider.

    Protective Screens – At the point of purchase, materials, designs, microphone?

    Floor Markings – Set to the advised spacing apart, simple.

    Protective Masks – All staff and management wear masks (medical, non-medical grade?)

    Protective Gloves – All staff equipped with ample supply of gloves and instructed on procedures for use, frequency of change etc.    

    Ventilation – All ventilation systems are operating to ensure clean flow of air (Kitchens)

    Public Information – Certificates and public info on view to make customers feel secure. 

    Delivery And Service Providers – Share the same Covid measures and certifications?

    Updated Cleaning Schedule – Based on new methods, frequency, cleaning agents.  

    Team Building – A series of actions to encourage open feedback between teammates, a forum, Whats App group, Zoom etc.

    Insurance – What can small businesses learn from the super giants, what changes? 

    Test Trace Isolate / Flatten The Curve – Are your team and customers aware of larger goals? If not, why not?  

    Solidarity – It is critical that governments and businesses move in tandem to ensure staff who may feel sick say so immediately. Same for those who have contact with Covid-19 cases?

    Emergency Procedure – What happens if X Y Z? Protocol and plans for the future.

    This Q & A on Food Safety and Covid 19, by the European Commission is informative. https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/safety/docs/biosafety_crisis_covid19_qandas_en.pdf

    Good luck out there. I hope to produce other such guidelines on other areas of impact this month. Much love,

    Steve fly

  • The Mother Of The Mother Of Tobacco Is A Snake

    A research study conducted in France has found that inpatients and outpatients who smoke tobacco are 80 and 75 % less likely to develop symptomatic and severe Covid-19 infections. My instincts tell me these findings are worthy of investigation, new consideration. Their methodology and experimental conditions are detailed and published HERE.

    To embolden the general idea I ask… what can we scrutinize about this study? How do we make their findings more robust and further expand the study, cross-examine other such studies? 

    My hunch starts with research conducted by Jeremy Narby and published in his book The Cosmic Serpent

    Below I’ve included screenshots of these two sources, together forming a balanced picture (a roughly left-brain and right-brain stereo mix) of what I have previously mused upon: indigenous shamanic practice using Ayahuasca and Tabacco and its role in our fight, as a interconnected global species, with novel airborne Coronaviruses.

    I’d like to encourage you to refocus (defocus using stereoscopic thinking) on the recent rigorous scientific study on Tobacco / Nicotine and Covid-19.

    Please let me know if you have any feedback in the comments.

    Much love, steve fly.

    https://www.qeios.com/read/WPP19W.3

  • Warriors Of The Rainbow 2020: A Trip Back To Novelty Wave

    Warriors Of The Rainbow 2020: A Trip Back To Novelty Wave

    A Little Introduction (approx. 7 min. read)

    Hi, the following essay sprawled out of control into a what I now call a woo-woo piece. A densely packed linked up trans-media story, riddled with facts, methodology and research based thinking, yet considering epoch sized, call em’ cosmic-ramifications, or woo-woo. I’d like to thank everybody who crossed my path along the way and above all to wish readers a strong, resilient and joyous 2020 as we shuffle toward the lights. After a number of perceived synchronicities recently, charged by the universal sense of existential dread flowing through the species at the moment, I’m reflecting on 44 days that impacted my life in 2012 and what I can learn in 2020. If you get tired of my tales you can skip to video and music links.

    My story begins around 1996, when I was living in Stourbridge UK and experimenting with psychedelic drugs and trip poets. I discovered two authors simultaneously, thanks to close friends, that had a deep and lasting impact on my life: Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson. When I discovered the chapter, Law Of Acceleration, in Wilson’s popular work of non-fiction Cosmic Trigger (1977) and his inclusion of McKenna’s Timewave-Zero theory, the penny dropped, or my voice dropped, something dropped. Wilson’s model of information doubling and onward to distinguishing exponential growth, including McKenna’s model and his love for entheogens and magic mushrooms was precisely what I needed to hear. Since then, I’ve followed the 2012 stuff and chimed in now and then with my 5c contribution to what I think it all means. As I said, woo-woo, to mean BIG ideas about complex processes and esoteric knowledge, a bit like criticism of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. These were the wild and out-there things this young apprentice shaman pined for. Indeed, these are the conditions that led me to adopt the artist name: Fly Agaric 23 around 1995.

    To give at least some idea of what I had read at this point in my life, yet not necessarily understood correctly! I’ll list a few titles: Food Of The Gods, True Hallucinations, The Invisible Landscape by McKenna, Cosmic Trigger I, II and III, Sex Drugs And Magick, Quantum Psychology by Wilson.777  and The Book Of Thoth by Aleister Crowley, The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby, I-Ching And The Genetic Code by Martin Schonberger, plus dipping my toe into Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval and even a taste of David Icke (spits over shoulder, ugh). During this time (1996-2000) I was drumming, learning to DJ with Jungle/Drum and Bass, Hip Hop, Trip Hop music, plus discovering the diverse UK underground cultural melting pot, leading to collaborating on nights and events locally.

    Jump forward 16 years, after living in America for five years, attending McKenna’s Wake in San Francisco, interviewing Wilson and contributing to his biographical film: Maybe Logic, and helping to found The Maybe Logic Academy (see MaybeLogic Quarterly). I was working at the 420 Coffeeshop, Amsterdam, collaborating closely with poet John Sinclair. It’s the 19th of November, the 25th High Times Cannabis Cup  is opening.

    John Sinclair And His Amsterdam Blues Scholars At The Cannabis Cup

    As an unofficial, satellite performance, celebrating cannabis and hemp culture during the High Times Cup, John Sinclair And His Amsterdam Blues Scholars performed at Club Aknaton on November 19th, 2012. John Sinclair, Leslie Lopez, Esther Croez, Mark Ritsema, Vicente Pino, Rebbecca Waller and myself played two sets of reefer jazz, one with Sinclair front and center.

    During the show, Steven Hager (of High Times) and Fantuzzi (Of The Fantuzzi Band) turned up, danced and fluffed-up the aura of the party. At the end, Hager stepped on stage and invited the band to join his Temple Dragon Band: the official High Times 2012 house band. Half the band accepted his offer. Rebbecca, Esther and I joined up for a week of creativity, chaos and a wild path to the Kukulkan pyramid, four weeks later.

    At some point late in the week Fantuzzi asked me if I wanted to join him, to play drums at Synthesis 2012, taking place in Chichen Itza. It didn’t take me long to decide. One song I played with both The Temple Dragon Band and with Fantuzzi is called Warriors Of The Rainbow, and is his interpretation in song format, of the Hopi Prophecy.

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  • My Dudley Newsquest For Numbers Concerning Russells Hall Hospital

    Dudley Muddley Pudding And Lies?

    How many? What are the numbers? What are the existing numbers, approx. I’d personally like to hear less soundbites and see the numbers backing claims. Too much to ask?

    There’s seems disagreement on how prepared Russells Hall hospital is to cope with Covid-19. (Or what the word “sufficient actually means…numbers?)
    Some (as yet unnamed) are claiming they do NOT have sufficient PPE. And Dudley Labour Councillors (and unknown others) are calling for residents to sign a petition demanding more PPE equipment in Dudley.

    However, Diane Wake chief exec of the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and a nurse (thank you for your care) has said, on the contrary, that they (Russells Hall Staff) have all the equipment they need. “The reports on social media are incorrect and causing unnecessary worry and concern.” she said.f masks, gowns and goggles at present (in stock) and on order (rate at which they are delivered). And what is your estimation of new patients, based on what analysis? Can we please see some numbers.
    https://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/18370407.dudley-hospitals-sufficient-supplies-personal-protective-equipment/

    I digress, but have a duty to point out that Dudley News, in typical Newsquest Gannet Media style, regurgitate what they are told to and suck it down like the mouth-to-mouth feeding animals at Dudley zoo. Never stopping to engage the reader with thinking. Asking questions, sourcing information, calling to see some numbers and get closer to facts and truth.   
    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2020/04/10/dudleys-labour-councillors-call-for-more-ppe-in-borough/

    For context, here’s an article from January 2020, before Covid-19, about patients being treated in corridors due to lack of beds at Russells Hall Hospital. Was that all dealt with in a quick month Diane? 
    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/health/2020/01/22/patients-being-treated-in-corridors-at-russells-hall-hospital/

    Here’s the text from Dudley Labour Group, and the Petition, in FULL:

    https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/supply-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-to-key-workers-in-dudley

    The Labour Group in Dudley is very concerned about the provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for our community health care workers across our Borough.

    We are concerned for both carers in Nursing and Residential Care homes and we are also concerned for the informal carers across the Borough who provide a vital, caring role for family members and vulnerable neighbours.

    These vital workers need regular and consistent supply of PPE and the Council need to assure the caring community that this will be provided.

    To date the provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is:

    1. Not consistent with WHO guidance
    2. The supply is not consistent and regular
    3.There is no provision for informal carers, which is increasing the demand on our overstretched workforce
    4. Putting the lives of these workers at risk

    As recommended by WHO and Public Health England for the management of COVID-19, we believe that there should be an adequate and consistent supply of:

    – Fluid repellent disposable gowns – EN13795
    – Nitrile non-sterile gloves – EN 374
    – Plastic aprons – category 1
    – Eyewear and face protection – EN166
    – FFP2 and FFP3 masks – EN 149
    – IIR Surgical masks – EN14683

    Carers in Dudley feel inadequately protected and vulnerable to infection; they cannot understand why the required PPE is not being supplied in the quantities needed. Anyone in Dudley caring for a relative or in a caring role should be able to access this vital equipment.

    The Council has had to resort to a request for donations from local businesses for PPE. While any donations will be welcome, they might not provide the best standard our workers and volunteers deserve. Coupled with this some staff have resorted to making their own PPE.

    Workers feel unable to carry out their job properly and protect themselves and their patients.

    The most common form of transmission of the virus is through contact and we know the virus is carried on clothing; this is why this so important. We do not want to lose vital key workers in this pandemic!

    Dudley Labour Group urges the Government to guarantee that all key workers get the PPE they need in order to protect themselves and their patients from COVID-19.

    Why is this important?

    The whole of the Country are behind our health and social care workers and we believe that the front line staff should have access to adequate PPE to perform their roles with the highest level of protection.

    https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/supply-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-to-key-workers-in-dudley

  • To The Five Cereals God

    Spring wind from the East
    Whispers of four seasons killer king at large
    Falling on deaf ears like snowflakes

    Flowers burst late winter messaging
    Sun’s fire and flood yin and yang
    Man’s dumb bones silent and thick
    The birds and bees return
    I sigh with pain and with relief
    The mountains and the milky way do not care
    For my mouthful of air
    When will I see my family again
    Who will we have become
    What of the badger fox and pheasant populations

    A Tsunami of novelty wash over gold
    Sunset on the horizon
    Its sudden beauty deceives man
    A novel king puzzle virus moves like a god
    Invisible almighty all-powerful creator and destroyer
    The slugs go about their twisted business
    Fish return to the river
    Men to their cave
    Sorrow on the air like bird song

    The countermeasures worse than the illness
    Thank goodness for Shen Nung
    The five cereals god
    Hemp cannabis and cheerfulness

    Funny thoughts dissolve
    As the long night approaches
    I start a poem and the moon sways
    Simple good health cheer for all
    May the cereal gods be bountiful
    May the rains not fail to fall
    May the greedy pulldown vanity
    Let us swear to meet again in the new world after
    Future

    –Steve Fly
    29/03/2020

  • Flyku 2020

    Flyku 2020

    I was planning to make these into a book (Coming Soon at www.patreon.com/stevefly)
    No time.

    Love, you.

    8 / 3

    Iridium Jazz

    NYC 2004

    rip mccoy

     

    toxic news be like

    horror quarantino film

    panic sells papers

     

    Invisible air

    water droplet to earth

    fire spirit

     

    the countermeasures

    worse than the corvid 19?

    now wash those brain cells

     

    a social virus

    under your fingertips now

    don’t touch your facebook

     

    mystical sarist

    tory super poop spreader

    diss inn fact virus

     

    box don’t shake on it

    knuckle-off switches and knobs

    elbow cough sneezy

     

    scaly pangolin

    no care for cash nor power

    happy eating ants

     

    no time to die

    time for market strategy

    covid bond delays

     

    cancel olympics

    compete to save the planet

    and the human race

     

    burn all your money

    vote conservative virus

    wash laundry offshore

     

    no border no flag

    no gender race or culture

    escape corvid king

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