I'm beginning to smell a rat. A big one.

It's 24-10 Cincinnati at the end of the third quarter as I begin to type this.

CBS and the NFL provided this this morning, courtesy of ESPN's Twitter account -- it would be the first visual "evidence" of Damar Hamlin's presence since he left the field in Cincinnati three weeks ago...

Damar Hamlin to Bills fans 🫶

(via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/XZh1HKCFNh

— ESPN (@espn) January 22, 2023

... if you could call that "evidence" in the first place.

You would THINK, by this point, the NFL and all media organizations have to be aware of the fact that 40% of this country now believes he is either gone already or so debilitated that there is no chance of recovery.

One of the first Tweet responses was that no one could actually get a good camera into that suite to confirm it, because I could well have almost been in that Bills jacket, and very few people probably would've noticed.

The word from Hamlin's people has significantly deteriorated in the last 72-96 hours as well.  The big part of it is that, for now, he needs constant oxygen (so then how could he get up there in the first place without someone spotting it's either not him or he's not as well as anyone has represented the last twenty days).

There are two possible angles you can look at with this, both ominous -- one for football alone, one for the entire society.

Just on the football angle:  Return to the concept of "commitio cardis".  That hit was clean as a whistle, straight to the chest.  Not a damn thing wrong with it -- and if it set something off to this effect, permanently damaging Hamlin (and that's assuming he's alive in the first place!), how can one feasibly continue the sport at any level?  So that's just one angle where the NFL would be ordering a massive coverup.

(Oh, by the way, after a Buffalo turnover, it's now a three-score game with 11:22 to play.  In snowy and windy conditions in Buffalo.  The NFL is either gonna have to pull a third big one deep out of it's bag of tricks, or...)

Now to the more societal angle, as Karl Denninger has been discussing with his people on The Market Ticker.  Scott Adams said this yesterday...

Scott Adams just broke the internet.

"The anti-vaxxers clearly won, you're the winners!" pic.twitter.com/4boVgmd90C

— "History Rhymes"🎧 (@Dr_logicaI) January 22, 2023

He's right.  I've said this a number of times over the last months.

(And before I continue, one for the "Upon Further Review" File:  It looks like an attempt was being made to get Buffalo in this game.  THIS was reversed from a fumble to not a fumble...)

ruling on the field is a fumble recovered by the Bengals, so I bet this will stand pic.twitter.com/2fvKtOiqUN

— alex (@highIightheaven) January 22, 2023

Now back to my point:

One of the means by which Denninger believes the vaccines have fucked us beyond repair is multiple studies (one in Puerto Rico, one in the United States military) which indicates that, of populations over 95% vaccinated, damage to the cardiovascular health of the vaccinated is over 70%.  He sources Steve Kirsch.

The bottom line is clear.  It's either the virus or the vaccines.

(And Buffalo just turned it over on downs.  Half the 4th left, down three scores.)

If it's the virus, then, going back to the comments of Scott Adams, you would think Denninger and his would be doing cartwheels now.  Because they now have a mechanism to kill the "useless", the "fat", the "elderly" (many of them all but openly proclaiming that the elderly should've been largely sacrificed, just in a manner they find convenient), etc. -- and they don't have to fire a damned shot to do it.  They can get their result AND be cowards about it.

If it's the vaccines, however, you've got a real problem.

According to USFacts.org, courtesy of Market Ticker reader "Realist":

263 million got the initial shot (about an 77% take)

224 million got a second (about 2/3)

and 109 million got at least one booster (a little less than a third).

Disclaimer and Disclosure:  I got the second, no boosters -- I've concluded that we will never reach herd immunity, and, hence, further shots are effectively useless in the equation.

Put that together with the reports of Steve Kirsch, and you get a damage rate of between 80 and 160 and 210 million in this country.

That latter number sounds well Deagel-ish, doesn't it?  We have about 36 months left in that prediction, for the record.

If it's the vaccines, it's all over.

Let me state that again:

If it's the vaccines, it's all over.  Gather with your loved ones, and prepare for the end.

You are already seeing All-Stop Conditions all over the place now.  Massive anti-police riot in Atlanta last night.  Supply chain is completely shot, and any hope of recovery to the kind of system we had pre-2020 isn't going to happen.  Now, anytime soon, or ever.  Mass shootings (including one which felled at least 12 when someone walked into a dance studio for a Chinese New Year celebration near LA and apparently got away into the ether last night) continue unabated.

Today is my 54th birthday, and, as I often do, I take a little stock of things, both introspective and otherwise.

I do NOT like what I'm seeing and sensing.

Between the culture wars taking shape in the Republican half of this country, the real possibility that Joe Biden has fucked up with this document situation (or is so compromised by Trump/MAGA/America First symphatizers in the Secret Service, etc. that it doesn't matter, end of the day whether he fucked up himself or not) to the point he must now be removed, the fact we have (past tense!) lost to COVID-19 and it's variants, etc., I have very little faith at all we would even see next football season with a materially similar nation to the one we even have now.  (And don't forget:  The United States just hit the debt ceiling on the 19th.  There is now real talk that the Taliban Twenty demanded, and will get, a full debt default -- making the next Presidential election absolutely pointless.  The country doesn't survive that long.)

That's the far more important stuff, and what I'm about to say specifically about football pales in comparison to it, except in one point.

I no longer believe the Damar Hamlin story.  Hamlin either died on that field and was not brought back or is deceased now.  The NFL cannot allow that to become public for multiple reasons, and the only question between them is whether you believe the situation regarding the vaccines or you believe, as many did (including one who falsely tried to represent himself as a doctor who gave Hamlin a COVID booster one week before that game in Cincinnati), that it's the vaccines.

We are going to get to the point, and quickly, that top-level competition on the athletic field in the organized world is completely impossiblem due to COVID.

Cincinnati has won, 27-10.  Buffalo was dominated in the game and was never in the game.

I can now only draw two conclusions.

1) The man you saw in that video (or the one I posted below afterward) was NOT Damar Hamlin.

2) Damar Hamlin is deceased, or in permanent hospice care.

And I guess you could add a third, if you really wanted to go there, based on the events of the game:

3) The Buffalo Bills know the first two statements to be fact.

EDIT UPON COMPLETION:  This is a second video which has surfaced of "Hamlin" being driven into the stadium.