Bicycling and monowheel scooters. Montgomery County Schools. Dead bodies tell tales.
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Luddite that I am, I have looked askance at the proliferation of segues, motorized scooters and bicycles, and most recently monowheels.
I bicycled to work from 1976 until my retirement in stages beginning about 1996. I did the 7 to 17 mile commutes year-round, resorting to my car only when I had appointments that I couldn’t well satisfy by bicycle or when the weather was truly nasty.
Yesterday was nasty enough for me. Instead of biking to the Nova Poshta (UPS) outlet to pick up the replacement reducer for our butane stove, I decided to walk. Ratifying my decision, I encountered a bicyclist walking his machine. And then, lo and behold, up over a snowy, muddy, rather steep although short hill came two people serenely sailing by on monowheels.
It made me stop and reflect. The reason I’m hesitant about bicycles is that I have gone down too often in snow and ice. I don’t want to risk these old bones. But the monowheel, just by its design, has a built-in sense of balance. It has to have the ability to compensate on the fly if it starts to slip.
I am not going to buy one anytime soon. Friends have told me about breaking bones riding on these things. But I concede that I have to show the technology a bit of respect.
Now three quarters of the way through the Malone book, I am formulating the thoughts for my review. Malone joins the consensus that all cause mortality is the criterion by which the injectable biological products being pushed as vaccines should be judged. He writes:
“ The Society of Actuaries collected and analyzed claims data from twenty life insurance companies that provide group term coverage in the United States representing roughly 90% of the employer-based group term life insurance industry [218]. All-cause mortality data for the pandemic period (April 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021) was compared to all-cause mortality data for the prepandemic baseline period (2017 through 2019). The analysis reveals a dramatic spike in deaths from all causes during the third quarter of 2021 (July 1 through September 30). During that quarter, excess mortality for all policyholders was more than 30% above baseline. The spike in deaths was even more dramatic for working-age people. Excess mortality for people ages 25 to 34 was 81% above baseline; excess mortality for people ages 35 to 44 was 117% above baseline; excess mortality for people ages 45 to 54 was 108% above baseline; and excess mortality for people ages 55 to 64 was 70% above baseline. The dramatic increase in deaths from all causes, particularly among working-age people, during the third quarter of 2021 when mass vaccination campaigns were well underway undermines the claim that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.”
I would hardly expect him to understate the case, but several articles I have read this week would suggest as much. Just as an example, large carrier Lincoln National Insurance paid out 163% more for deaths of working people ages 18-64 in 2021. Here are their claim figures for the last three years: 2019: $500,888,808, 2020: $547,940,260, and 2021: $1,445,350,949.
Back in the 1990s, when my first family was in high school, I attended a very heated parents’ meeting concerning sex education for high schoolers. At that time the curriculum was being changed to recognize homosexuality as a normal life choice. Teachers were putting condoms on bananas to show how to do it, and contending that all sex was more or less the same.
The parent community of Montgomery county is highly educated. A doctor in the group spoke up about his own experience, describing the great multitude of health problems experienced by the gay men he treated. He said that as a minimum the sex educators should recognize the statistical differences between gay and straight populations with regard to AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The educators in charge were not having any of it.
I still have no idea how it came to be, but my daughter Suzy became the president of the gay bacon lettuce and tomato (I can’t get this visual image out of my mind) or LGBT club at the Walt Whitman High School. If she had any sexual experience at all at the time the information was kept from me – a fairly good likelihood. She did have a boyfriend, Aidan, and my guess would be that her inclination was hetero and that she was simply supporting the gay community out of a sense of political correctness. At any rate this was one of the many topics she and I could not talk about, the kind of thing that led her to cancel me at the end of 2009.
Older daughter Naomi, who works in biotech, patiently explained to dear old dad nine years ago, when she was still talking to me, that HIV definitely, certainly, 100% is the cause of AIDS and that I was something of a demented old fogey to let myself be led astray by what would now be called misinformation in the Peter Duesberg book “Inventing the AIDS Virus.” She would not even admit that it was a question worth further investigation. It appears now that it was invented by Anthony Fauci and that the demonized scientists such as Duesberg, Kary Mullis and others were right all along. Naturally, she will never give me the opportunity to discuss the issue again.
Heresy remains alive and well in Montgomery County. They are teaching elementary school children the lexicon of homosexuality and transsexuality, but scrubbing the school libraries of books promoting traditional American values. A certain segment of you readers will note that this link is from Fox News and therefore automatically discount it. In doing so, please tell me why what it presents as facts are not true.
That’s the brief news from Lake WeBeGone, where the power just went out again. Both girls and their mother are in the same nursery school today. I will look in on Edward to make sure that he’s doing something useful and get back to finishing the Malone book.
It's amazing how many people were frightened by the AIDS thing. Since I lived in Santa Cruz, an active suburb of gay San Francisco, I knew guys who were contracting AIDS and I started investigating. There was no Internet then, so it took some years. By the time it hit the main stream press, I knew already that it was a disease limited to zip codes. I can thank Celia Farber for this information because her writing in SPIN magazine was the best material on the subject to my knowledge. I am sure that she was the one writing the articles about zip codes. In other words, it was a disease of two groups, if it was a disease at all, needle users and male homosexuals.
I remember one night watching Nightline, with Ted Koppel, as he interviewed two scientists from the CDC. He was trying as hard as possible to get them to say that AIDS was a disease rampant in all segments of society. In fact, they resisted and told the truth. AIDS was largely restricted to two groups as noted above. It was not a heterosexual disease.
When the mainstream press started its fear campaign about AIDS, I was already convinced that there was nothing for me personally to worry about. I still remember an article from the San Francisco Chronicle. The headline read that AIDS was up 40% in heterosexual women in the Bay Area. I read until the second to last paragraph which gave the actual statistics. There had been three cases of AIDS among heterosexual women in 1983, but in 1984 there were five cases, an increase of 40%. You see, it wasn't a lie. AIDS was getting worse and affecting heterosexual women.
A few years later, I had an opportunity to speak to a man who worked for the CDC. I had to ask him why the government was lying about AIDS, because it wasn't true what they were saying in public. It was no surprise to him, and he told me what the justification was for all the lies coming from the CDC. There was a significant rise of STDs among young people since the 70s because of the era of free love, but young people were not afraid of the standard STDs, like gonorrhea and chlamydia. But they were afraid of AIDS. Thus, the use of the fear campaign was justified if it stopped rampant sexual behavior.
I suspect the drugs, multiple partners in unprotected sex has much to do with AIDS. The various one night stands we may have engaged in were not likely to be that dangerous, protected or not.
Excess mortality worldwide follows vaccine usage. And Malone notes heart issues in young males harms them for life. Turns out rushing towards a imperfect savior hasn't been wise. Pity we couldn't have started with the GBD, we might have been safer in the end.