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 had several male homosexuals working for me at the stores that I owned and managed, and I talked to them a lot about the whole scene. Plus, at the same time, I was taking Tai Chi classes in San Francisco and a number of the guys in my classes were known to be gay. One of them died; the other did not, but he was in a long term relationship with his lover and thus not part of the scene. I also knew some acupuncturists who were practicing in San Francisco, treating AIDS patients and they explained to me the impossibility of a "normal" person contracting AIDS. The medical history of many in the gay community at that time was abysmal. I was also aware of the Fauci/ Robert Gallo connection and I read some articles later by Peter Duesberg so I had some idea of what was going on.
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.
Yeah, I saw the movie, and the previews, going back to the disco scene of the early '70s (hey, I like to dance!) before aids hit. When the panic started, I was swept up in it, even though I was pretty sure it was mostly a gay and needle-user thing. This was because I knew how devious gays were/are, and how often they got with naïve and unsuspecting normal women.
End result, I gave up several chances to have relationships with women, voluntarily suffering all the pangs of deprivation a young man feels; but today I have a wife 24 years younger than me and two strapping, straight A student sons who revere me. If I'd have got with one of those earlier women, not only would I be looking at an old hag for a wife, but the children would have been gen-xers, the vilest generation ever to walk the earth, who see boomers (me) much the same way bears were once seen, as slow-witted creatures to be caged and tormented in bear-baiting. My gen Z sons, with two full generations' perspective, look on with fond amusement at my fumbling with the technology and mistrust for anything new, but it's nothing like the vicious, vindictive hatred of the gen-xers. I sense that they see me as an historic figure, a relic of a pre-historic era, a time when no one knew what was happening because no cell phones and internet, when everyone had to stand alone and operate only on what he could see in front of him. They respect and are grateful for the fact that I am a survivor of a time of riots, war, revolutions, and incomprehensible diseases who somehow held it together long enough to meet and woo their mother and give them their lives.
As for the CDC and Faucci's reasoning in pushing the "everybody is at risk" line: it seems far fetched to me that they would worry about the "rise of STDs among young people since the 70s". I took it then and I still do as nothing more than a cover-up service for a fashionable and increasingly politically powerful group.
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.”
This increase in deaths does not lead to any such conclusion. For example, Canada has a much higher rate of COVID vaccination than the US - as of early this month, 82.3% fully vaxxed and 71.83% boosted, compared to the US, 68.49% fully vaxxed and 42.56% boosted. (These are US figures, from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/covid-19-vaccination-rates-by-country.)
If vaccines were harmful, you'd expect a bigger increase in excess mortality in Canada, but it's the reverse. Over the whole length of the pandemic, excess mortality was higher in the US than in Canada. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Surely given these figures, it's a credible hypothesis that some of the excess mortality could be due to (gasp) COVID? In addition, of course, to diminished health care available to people with other serious problems, since COVID patients were taking up available space in intensive care units...
2. Regarding AIDS, there are different patient profiles in different situations. AIDS doesn't specifically target gay men, it targets unprotected sex with infected persons, and sharing of body fluids in other ways. In the US, the gay male population (at least in the past) tended to have more partners and more unprotected sex than the rest of the population, and therefore more AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. HIV/AIDS can be transmitted from a mother to her child during pregnancy or childbirth, or through breastfeeding. Non-sexual transmission can also occur through the sharing of injection equipment such as needles. The "condom banana" is a good lesson, though certainly incomplete. In some African countries, 1/4 of the population has AIDS; married women (and their babies) have high rates of AIDS there - it's not only a gay male issue and straight people are certainly not immune. Teaching about the health results of injecting drugs or of having unprotected sex (for anyone) seems much more useful than demonizing the gay population for a non-causal correlation.
In the meantime, I hope the loud explosions you mention in your other email haven't led to any more tangible problems. I will look for your next updates with hope of positive news. Slava Ukraini.
It may or may not be a good lesson for African women, in Africa; we don't want our children in America exposed to this kind of messaging. And if a quarter of the population gets AIDS anyway, it sounds like condom lectures are losing out to the well documented African sexual licentiousness, which public school sex education does nothing to deter and in fact even legitimizes in its very name.
"AIDS doesn't specifically target gay men". This is the old Fauciesque sleight of hand. In fact, it "specifically targets" those who target the anus for sex, because this results in lesions, which are the primary conduit for transmission. Since It started with homosexuals, it could have been restricted to homosexuals, but Fauci got his followers in government to refuse to close the New York City bathhouses. I read everything Fauci said as it was happening; he's the main culprit in this.
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.
Thanks, Mark. You and I lived through it. We serve as corporate memory for people of the Covid generation who have not seen this movie before.
I had several male homosexuals working for me at the stores that I owned and managed, and I talked to them a lot about the whole scene. Plus, at the same time, I was taking Tai Chi classes in San Francisco and a number of the guys in my classes were known to be gay. One of them died; the other did not, but he was in a long term relationship with his lover and thus not part of the scene. I also knew some acupuncturists who were practicing in San Francisco, treating AIDS patients and they explained to me the impossibility of a "normal" person contracting AIDS. The medical history of many in the gay community at that time was abysmal. I was also aware of the Fauci/ Robert Gallo connection and I read some articles later by Peter Duesberg so I had some idea of what was going on.
You recommended the Peter Duesberg book to me. Thanks.
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.
Yeah, I saw the movie, and the previews, going back to the disco scene of the early '70s (hey, I like to dance!) before aids hit. When the panic started, I was swept up in it, even though I was pretty sure it was mostly a gay and needle-user thing. This was because I knew how devious gays were/are, and how often they got with naïve and unsuspecting normal women.
End result, I gave up several chances to have relationships with women, voluntarily suffering all the pangs of deprivation a young man feels; but today I have a wife 24 years younger than me and two strapping, straight A student sons who revere me. If I'd have got with one of those earlier women, not only would I be looking at an old hag for a wife, but the children would have been gen-xers, the vilest generation ever to walk the earth, who see boomers (me) much the same way bears were once seen, as slow-witted creatures to be caged and tormented in bear-baiting. My gen Z sons, with two full generations' perspective, look on with fond amusement at my fumbling with the technology and mistrust for anything new, but it's nothing like the vicious, vindictive hatred of the gen-xers. I sense that they see me as an historic figure, a relic of a pre-historic era, a time when no one knew what was happening because no cell phones and internet, when everyone had to stand alone and operate only on what he could see in front of him. They respect and are grateful for the fact that I am a survivor of a time of riots, war, revolutions, and incomprehensible diseases who somehow held it together long enough to meet and woo their mother and give them their lives.
As for the CDC and Faucci's reasoning in pushing the "everybody is at risk" line: it seems far fetched to me that they would worry about the "rise of STDs among young people since the 70s". I took it then and I still do as nothing more than a cover-up service for a fashionable and increasingly politically powerful group.
I have a few comments:
1. You quote Malone as saying
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.”
This increase in deaths does not lead to any such conclusion. For example, Canada has a much higher rate of COVID vaccination than the US - as of early this month, 82.3% fully vaxxed and 71.83% boosted, compared to the US, 68.49% fully vaxxed and 42.56% boosted. (These are US figures, from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/covid-19-vaccination-rates-by-country.)
If vaccines were harmful, you'd expect a bigger increase in excess mortality in Canada, but it's the reverse. Over the whole length of the pandemic, excess mortality was higher in the US than in Canada. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Surely given these figures, it's a credible hypothesis that some of the excess mortality could be due to (gasp) COVID? In addition, of course, to diminished health care available to people with other serious problems, since COVID patients were taking up available space in intensive care units...
2. Regarding AIDS, there are different patient profiles in different situations. AIDS doesn't specifically target gay men, it targets unprotected sex with infected persons, and sharing of body fluids in other ways. In the US, the gay male population (at least in the past) tended to have more partners and more unprotected sex than the rest of the population, and therefore more AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. HIV/AIDS can be transmitted from a mother to her child during pregnancy or childbirth, or through breastfeeding. Non-sexual transmission can also occur through the sharing of injection equipment such as needles. The "condom banana" is a good lesson, though certainly incomplete. In some African countries, 1/4 of the population has AIDS; married women (and their babies) have high rates of AIDS there - it's not only a gay male issue and straight people are certainly not immune. Teaching about the health results of injecting drugs or of having unprotected sex (for anyone) seems much more useful than demonizing the gay population for a non-causal correlation.
In the meantime, I hope the loud explosions you mention in your other email haven't led to any more tangible problems. I will look for your next updates with hope of positive news. Slava Ukraini.
"The "condom banana" is a good lesson".
It may or may not be a good lesson for African women, in Africa; we don't want our children in America exposed to this kind of messaging. And if a quarter of the population gets AIDS anyway, it sounds like condom lectures are losing out to the well documented African sexual licentiousness, which public school sex education does nothing to deter and in fact even legitimizes in its very name.
"AIDS doesn't specifically target gay men". This is the old Fauciesque sleight of hand. In fact, it "specifically targets" those who target the anus for sex, because this results in lesions, which are the primary conduit for transmission. Since It started with homosexuals, it could have been restricted to homosexuals, but Fauci got his followers in government to refuse to close the New York City bathhouses. I read everything Fauci said as it was happening; he's the main culprit in this.