Antibiotics – yes. Pandemics – not. Russians – no way.

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On Sunday I wrote that I would get a strep test. But - I didn’t feel well enough to leave the house. I crossed my fingers and started taking doxycycline. On Monday the sore throat was still severe but the sweats and fever were gone. By Wednesday I was halfway normal and got out of the house, and today I was out for a couple of hours running errands.

It seems hypocritical to criticize modern medicine as I do and yet still give fervent thanks for what they have made possible. Yes, there are a lot of wonderful things. But the medical profession’s business is to tell you that everything is wonderful, which is not so.

Now el gato malo weighs in with this nugget:

the truly big lie constituting a forest that has been lost for the trees and perversely therefore winds up being reinforced by the very debate about the little lies.

and that lie is that pandemics are dangerous to modern societies.

We are aware of the new pandemics that the CDC is peddling now that Covid is waning.  Monkeypox, RSV, HPV, Ebola, Avian flu.  Same stuff (swine flu, anthrax…) that they pushed for as long as we can remember.  None of which came to anything.

They tried to panic us all about AIDS.  Nah.  It stayed confined to gay men, IV drug users and hemophiliacs.  There is a strong case to be made that the HIV virus, if it even exists, is a harmless fellow traveler.  The real cause is the continual assaults to the immune system by injecting other people’s blood (hemophiliacs and druggies), drugs, and body fluids.  See Celia Farber’s upcoming Serious Adverse Events, which draws on Peter Duesberg’s Inventing the AIDS Virus, which Mark in Berlin persuaded me to read and review a decade back.

It turns out that smallpox has been misrepresented – both the severity of the disease and the safety of the vaccine.  This was in the infancy of vaccination – Leicester, England in the 1880s.  This same piece indicates that polio shots were not an unmixed blessing.  They were made by Abbott Labs, close to Berkeley.  Killed a bunch of kids when I was in school.  It turns out that the polio epidemic was largely over by the time they rolled out the vaccines.  It was a Rockefeller big pharma scheme.

The last event to be generally agreed to be a global pandemic was the Spanish flu of 1918. They came out just as the Bayer Corporation of Germany had announced a new wonder drug, aspirin. They rushed to get this drug into use.

As el gato malo reports (same link as above) they were so enthusiastic about it they started giving the ailing soldiers 8 to 30 grams per day of this wonder drug.  Oops!  It turns out that 20 g is poison. The biggest aspirin tablets today are 325 mg, about 1/60 as much. Perhaps, just perhaps those brave soldiers were killed by drugs. Just like the Covid patients were killed by midazolam and remdesivir.  And AIDS patients by AZT.  Gato malo reports that soldiers who were not given the wonder drug seem to recover from the Spanish flu more or less like any other flu.

In this week’s Covid news, Alex Berenson tells us that China abandoned its disastrous lockdowns, after which covid swept the country. It killed a few people. The wave has gone and now everybody is well again. Since China used traditional vaccine technology, the major problem they had with their vaccines was that they didn’t work. Just like most flu vaccines don’t work. On the other hand, not using mRNA they didn’t kill vast numbers of people. China does not appear to have the same “sudden death” problem as the Western countries.

CDC it is not giving up. They keep trying to scare us about RSV, avian flu, monkeypox and God knows what else. But they have fooled us too often. People are not buying it.

I responded to this piece of clickbait about the most expensive and cheapest cities in the world to see if there was any mention of Kyiv. Nope. But New York looked frighteningly expensive. Looking around, I found a more comprehensive list here.

There are cheaper places to live than Ukraine, but none in Europe. The figures they give seem reasonable to me. About $1900 a month for a family of four, including $450 rent for a three bedroom apartment. The other major cities of Ukraine cost less.

Yesterday I tried to save a file with the name “grocery list.docx” only to find that I already had a file by that name. From 2008, my first full year here, when I was still finding my way around. I am pleased to report that the dollar prices of potatoes, tomatoes, and cucumbers are about the same after 15 years. Although salmon is up fourfold, everyday foods remain affordable.

This morning Russia unleashed the massive missile attack that has been hanging over our heads for the last month. We heard loud explosions in the early morning. Ukraine was able to shoot down only 31 of the 84 missiles. They deployed a lot of decoys, balloons and such, to fool our air defenses. The Russians were using fastest, most expensive stuff. The list of munitions includes supersonic stuff intended to carry nuclear warheads.

Six people died and there was moderate damage to the power infrastructure. We were without electricity for a couple of hours this morning and we have had momentary outages throughout the day. The fact that Russia waited so long and sent such a mixed bag of costly munitions suggests to me that they may be close to the bottom of the barrel.

Amazingly, Ukraine is still hanging on in Bakhmut after six months under assault and reportedly huge Russian losses. I keep waiting for somebody to tell me I’m wrong about my “rope a dope” theory, but every day I am more convinced that we are simply letting them wear themselves out.

I have finished reading the upcoming Severe Adverse Events, above, and will start to write my review now that I’m feeling a little bit better. In the meanwhile I completed reading the third edition of Male-Female and have come away with a number of insights. David Geary’s chapter on the biology of homosexuality is the most convincing I have read. The causes are real. However, the percentage of people affected by the biological causes remains in the 2% range, nothing like the reported 20% range in the stuff I recently posted. His book says as much – a lot of what we see is merely being trendy.  Meanwhile, CDC says young people are more depressed and suicidal than ever.  Wonder why.

Another insight from the book is that sexual reproduction, as biologically wasteful as it is, produces diversity. Especially in our immune systems. That’s why no single pandemic has ever wiped our species out. Everybody’s natural immunity is somewhat different.

That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man is feeling about 75% today, the good-looking woman continues to teach little children here at home and in the nursery school, and Eddie is powering through his sixth grade math book at a pretty good clip.

Graham