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I had never heard of RSV Respiratory Syncytial Virus until last year. Now we hear breathless reports from two of the more enthusiastic members of Team Covid that there will soon be a vaccine to protect us all from this peril. Eric Topol and Katelyn Jetelina report that it uses the wonderful new mRNA technology, which has been used in billions of doses of Covid 19 vaccines and will be available in approved vaccines any day now, when Big Pharma feels that they no longer need the legal protection they receive under their EUA - Emergency Use Authorization.
RSV is not new. With a bit of probing, I find graphs of the incidence of RSV dating back two decades. Here is Japan
And here is Ireland.
A cynic would content that "science" has stuck a high-sounding name on a variant of the common cold, giving Big Pharma an excuse to gin up another vaccine.
Like the common cold (how little respect that name conjures up!) it is seasonal, widespread, and dangerous only to a few groups. Vulnerable newborns, especially the premature, and elderly with comorbidities. If you already have five things wrong with you and a sixth pushes you into the hands of the grim reaper, call it RSV, notch up another statistic, and get those vaccines on the mandatory vaccine schedule!
The CDC reckons that between 6,000 and 10,000 elderly die annually from RSV, almost all with co-morbidities. The cynic in me notes that case counts were vastly lower over the past two years. Wonder why? Maybe they needed the numbers for Covid?
The CDC doesn't provide statistics for children's deaths. This quote from Forbes leads me to conclude it is probably in the mere hundreds, almost exclusively among infants with other difficulties.
“The vast majority of deaths with RSV occur in developing countries,” Bont said. “In the developed world, mortality is really rare, and if it happens, it’s virtually only in those who have severe comorbidities. But in most places in the world, there is no intensive care unit.”
Globally, RSV is the second leading cause of death during the first year of a child’s life, after malaria. Between 100,000 and 200,000 babies die from the virus every year, Bont said.
I conclude that RSV is not a great threat to the general population. Not even to me as an old man or to my young children. mRNA vaccines, however, alter your DNA and turn your body into a pharmaceutical factory with a highly unpredictable production schedule. What could go wrong? Well, the FDA/CDC could examine the evidence. If they wanted,
Similarly, I had never heard of human papillomavirus (HPV) until "science" breathlessly told us they had a magical vaccine a few years back. Which vaccine they we want us all to take before ever having sex. For people with cervices (used to be called women), HPV can cause cancer of the cervix in later life. For those without cervices it can cause genital warts and rare cancers. The HPV vaccine was at the top of the list for reported vaccine adverse events before the Covid vaccines came along. And all that for a disease that, like AIDS, hardly poses a threat to people who lead discreet sex lives.
Bottom line on RSV. The virus isn't much of a threat, but mRNA vaccines have been implicated in millions of deaths. IMHO anybody gullible enough to accept them, after witnessing the carnage brought about by the Pfizer and Moderna jabs, should be eligible for the Darwin award. If these vaccines cleanse the world of self-righteous, woke SJWs I suppose they are not an altogether bad thing.
My wife thinks our three kids are smart. Who am I to disagree? The environment was different for the three children of my first family. They and their mother all grew up with fluoridated water and the experienced the full CDC schedule of childhood vaccines. Putting aside environmental factors and assuming my two wives were genetically equivalent, purely as a mathematical question, assuming that their genetic inheritance gives each child the same chance, what would be the odds of each of the three children from my second family being smarter than all three of my first family? Not an easy hypothetical. I'm letting Eddie gnaw on it. Hint - it’s related to the earlier bellhop/keys question.
Team Reality has slowly stopped putting up with nonsense. Alex Berenson was provoked to a rant by a relative who accused him of taking a stand against science in not believing in the Covid vaccine. He came back hard. It is his very belief in science that makes him a skeptic.
Team Covid often relies on polemics rather than argument. They can be incessant and obnoxious. Robert Malone recently wrote about it. Anticipating rather than following Malone's advice, I quietly dropped one of my subscribers who frequently wrote to call me a racist, anti-Semite etc. etc.
This time he also called me unsupportive of my children for saying my 41-year-old son was unsuccessful merely because he has been living on the streets for several years. How dare I? He's just finding himself. This guy indulges his three late millennial daughters. He expects nothing of them, especially not marriage or grandchildren. It will be interesting to see how they satisfy his zero expectations. Aside, of course, from being woke. Which they are.
I would never change his mind. Why allow my mailbox, and my mind, to be cluttered with his nonsense? I was raised to be civil to everybody. However, Alinsky taught the Boomer generation that incivility will often get their way dealing with people who have a conscience. It was time, after forty years, to simply end it.
Yesterday the whole family took an outing to Victory Park, where the kids played on the marvelous playground equipment, and we enjoyed a delicious café lunch. I scanned the lake for boats, but that concession is apparently not open yet.
Oksana took the girls for a walk last night, and Zoriana somehow managed to fall into a lake. Totally. Sopping wet. Oksana claims it was good she knew how to swim. I can't believe the lake is that deep, but she says she did indeed swim. And lost her winter boots. Probably stuck in the mud on the bottom.
I'm pleased that Oksana gives her the freedom to make mistakes like that. Just this week I showed the kids my own body's inventory of scars and broken bones, making the point that childhood used to be rougher. Maybe not. Eddie and I noticed that the metro is once again stopping at Hydropark, Kyiv's Coney Island. We haven't been in a rowboat for two years. Can't wait until they open for the season. We have had some excitement on those boats! Here's an excerpt from my blog of four summers back.
This came home to me Sunday when we did something kinda stupid. I took Eddie and his friend Lolika on a rowboat that we rented in Hydropark, the Soviet era amusement park on Venetsiansky Island in the middle of the Dnipro River. We rode west through the channel separating this from two other islands, into the Dnipro itself. I asked the kids if they were up for the 4 mile trip all the way around the island. They eagerly assented.
There was a stiff breeze blowing upriver and some dark clouds in the West. I thought, no problem, the wind will blow the clouds away from us. As we got halfway down the length of the island, we observed that the storm on the opposite bank of the river was staying put and there was quite a dramatic lightning show. The wind was still very much in my face as I continued paddling downstream. The storm, however, seem to buck the wind and follow us.
As we rounded the bottom of the island and started back up, the wind shifted and was in our face again. More than that, it started to rain a little bit. I poured on the steam, but by the time we got a bit past halfway up toward the pier it was raining cats and dogs. The lightning was immediately overhead, the thunder instantaneous. I wasn't worried about being struck – the tall trees would be hit first, there is never a report of people getting hit by lightning, and the fishermen were staying put along the banks – but we were thoroughly soaked by the time we got back to the dock.
I doubt there is any place in the United States where you would be allowed to paddle four miles on a busy waterway in the middle of the capital city. It is not without its dangers. When I was first doing it a decade ago I once repeatedly heard some odd honking sound. It got my attention. Turning around, I saw a tow-boat driven barge coming right at me. They weren't going fast, but they couldn't have stopped if I had been totally oblivious.
That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the good-looking woman has gotten into taking long walks with the kids. Good for everybody to stretch their legs, and good that kids spend so much time talking with their mother.
Exactly right. Added a new word to my vocabulary. Epithelial. Pertaining to (among other things) the inner lining of the capillaries. The spike protein causes very small clots in them, telltale signs of vaccine damage, but not evident unless you look for them. And especially if you consciously don't look for them.
Have you noticed lately that they are creating new diseases? And they have a cure, too. Just show me your arm and we can inject you with some shit cooked up in a lab. It's much better than your own immune system. It appears now that diabetes is not diabetes when your blood sugar is a certain level. No, it's a new disease called Metabolic Syndrome, and surprise they have a drug to treat that. Your blood pressure in old age used to be normal if it was 140/90, but that is not okay now. It must be 120/80 or you are prescribed drugs to lower it. Why? Because they want to sell more drugs. Sorry, not recreational drugs, but pharmaceutical drugs. Pharmaceutical drugs good, recreational drugs bad. Of course, it's not about your health. It's about Big Pharma's bottom line and the bonuses they give out like Wall Street bankers. Of course, you are not allowed to take HGH which restores your youth, no. That's not allowed even though it is proven to be safe. They don't want old people to live longer and collect their pensions. Hell, no. When the mRNA vaccine regime is finished, social security will be again in the black. And they have twenty new drugs in the pipeline for all sorts of diseases that you've never heard about before. Just line up and expose your arm. It's free. Your Obama care insurance will pay for it.