We're interested to know that at least two new vaccines "effective" against Covid-19 are just about ready to go, but killjoys that we are, may we throw a little caution to this wind?
When I served in Air Force hospitals during the Vietnam years, I had a not-necessarily desired opportunity to see things that many physicians and nurses may never see throughout their careers. One of these was not one, but several patients afflicted with the rare Guillain-Barre' syndrome. In general, according to medical data from recent years, the United States only sees 4,000 or so G-B victims a year.
G-B appears to be an autoimmune assault in which one's immune system attacks itself while over-responding to a separate physical infection, resulting in one's own system attacking nerve sheaths and the nerves they protect. Usually, the victim notices a systemic paralysis beginning in the lower extremities and advancing all the way up to the point where people sometimes require machine-assistance in breathing because respiratory muscles are themselves paralyzed.
Fortunately, full recovery generally occurs after many weeks or months, requiring in the meantime extensive physical therapy to protect joints and muscles from adhesions and atrophy. The toll such attention requires from nursing and therapeutic personnel can be immense and tedious to the provider.
Why do I bother to mention all of this? Simply because when the "Swine Flu" erupted, a small number of people receiving immunizations did indeed acquire the G-B syndrome.
And, therefore, we ask -- with these new Covid-19 miracle vaccines coming forth quickly, despite all the safety tests touted by the pharmaceutical industry, does anybody have any idea how many self-attacking immune systems may react badly to the introduction of this foreign material? If, as we are told, these vaccines are produced under newer and better circumstances, maybe everything will be just fine. Yet, a substance so new -- so "novel," like the virus itself -- has hardly enjoyed the benefit of working with the clock to observe long-term effects on auto-immunity following a coming plethora of immunizations. A vaccine may indeed be 95 percent effective against the virus, but what potential percentage of those vaccinated are in jeopardy of neurological problems? None? Some? We suspect that nobody can yet predict numbers of consequence.
The Social(ist) Network: Were I once again handing out RB (Rat-Bastard) Awards, the current crop would need to go to the arbiters of "truth" at Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram and among lesser players. When you exclude, willfully censor, twist and manage news and information to suit a political agenda, that's when your identity as a platform goes away and your editing style as a publisher rushes in, altering your Internet benefits as a social network player. Slapping warnings upon and omitting conservative-based messages isn't right. Certain politicians and globalists, of course, are in love with the diminution of our freedom of speech in the U.S.
On a much brighter note. the left itself is stoking a building rage over the existence of Parler.com, a new and quickly growing alternative to the above entities which DOES NOT CENSOR thoughts, and welcomes members of both the political right and left. Parler must be considered a threat to the current social Internet kidnappers because voices are on the rise calling for squelching of this free speech option.
Andrew Cuomo attempts to publish an ass-covering: New York's classic dictator-in-waiting, currently disguised as governor, did what anybody dripping with self-denial and guilt would do -- he wrote a book exonerating himself from thousands of Covid-19 related nursing home deaths leading back to his own executive order. So far, this idiocy has resulted in the paltry sale of approximately 11,000 copies, and we suspect that most of these byproducts of wasted forest trees were snapped up by family members and other associates of New York's omnipresent and failed leftist rule. This elitist fool of privilege who reportedly never held a real job in his life need not have bothered to pen (or to have somebody ghost-pen) a book, because historians of worth will eventually record Cuomo, his failed leadership and his accommodating sycophants harshly, truthfully and with finality. NY representative government and Cuomo have nothing to do with one another.
Like a bag of rotting fish everybody thought had been relegated to the trash heap, but somehow fell off the garbage truck, we note the return of Barack Obama, Iran's favorite economic gift horse. He, like Andrew Cuomo, writes books in an attempt to assure a leadership legacy which never was. Interesting, isn't it, how ancient figurehead Biden seems to be re-introducing Obama Era names and faces so we can experience that horrible national two-term episode again, this time on mega-steroids?
Don't fail to visit the worldeconomicforum.org, where the plans of even more privileged jug heads such as Prince Charles and others have crafted "The Great Reset" for the world, an American constitution killer if ever there was one. We must not allow this insanity and its reliance on the discounted "critical race theory" in education systems to go forward. The Great Reset IS World War III to a free society.
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If we're all supposed to share equality, when is this nonsense going to stop? It's disgraceful enough how The New Racists are doing all they can to erase white European accomplishments and history. We're pretty certain that the Biden bunch will accommodate 'em in an attempt to kiss up to the radical left element which, we fondly hope, will just return to the sewer from which it emerged someday.
Trump's post-election rage: So why wouldn't he raise hell? Look at what the left and members of his own party have perpetrated upon him day after day, the lies, the banalities.
The Durham Report? Attorney General Barr? Where are-e-e-e-e y'all? Remember indictments and arrests in waiting, etc., etc. . .?
Predator's corner: Here I go again, stepping in it. If only I had played it safe and remained wrapped up in the UFO subject. Anyway, here goes. . .
If some 90,000 former members have joined to sue the Boy Scouts of America for sexual violations, there are likely thousands and thousands more out there who want nothing to do with the whole, if you will pardon the expression, affair. Taken together with voluminous charges against the Catholic Church, one really needs to ask? Is this behavior, after all, normal?
In the distant past on this blog, we touched (inappropriate word) upon the fact, fact, fact that there were ancient societies which not only condoned, but insisted upon sexual relationships between men and boys right down to, yes, the exchange of bodily fluids. Such encounters were believed by these cultures to assure that boys would grow to be stronger men.
Don't blame me, blame the ancients. So. . .is there something genetic here? Is it a case of, not the devil made them do it, but that genetics cause males to take liberties with the younger set? We already know how that works with men who "lust" after young girls, but the undeniable truth that there appears to be a great deal of this behavior occurring in the older/younger male-to-male segment causes us to wonder about the actual difference between deviation and acceptance. Don't throw the brickbats at me readers, it's the numbers which pique my curiosity.
In the remote past, when I reviewed unusual books for various publications, I encountered a good deal of writing on this subject, and while I've forgotten so much by now I still recommend the book, The Spirit and the Flesh to those intrigued by the issue. Man/boy (unwanted) sex seems not to be a simple black-and-white matter, but when we witness law firms and politicians distorting events in order to acquire vast corporate fortunes, careful contemplation goes far, far away. Whether in the tabloids or in the courtroom, sex sells, all kinds of sex. Always. 👀
