The upside of a free press. Local color. Journalists right and wrong. X versus Y.
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Despite the fact that Kyiv is a big city and I stick resolutely to my small corner, I can add a little local color to the news. Yesterday it was about Jimmy Hill. Today I add that one of Eddie's classmates lives down the street from where that Russian drone was taken out by a tomato jar a couple of weeks back. The family had fled, so they don’t know the story any better than I. The best explanation I have heard remains that it was some local bad guys casing empty apartments. A Russian surveillance drone should have cameras that are able to operate from more of an altitude, and not be snooping around apartment buildings.
Lastly, the news yesterday was that Kyiv's first McDonald's had been blown up in Lyukyanivska. They suggested it was revenge for shutting down McDonald's in Moscow. I will offer something more prosaic that the newshounds missed. That McDonald's is right at the foot of a pretty tall broadcast tower. The Russians have been trying to knock out TV stations since the beginning of the war.
War is local. I wrote that things were quiet in our neighborhood, with more people out on the streets. Bob Homans wrote quite the opposite, that missiles struck not only the McDonald's but a couple of other places on the right bank. Those were, to us, no more than medium loud bangs.
I wrote yesterday about freedom of the press – specifically the freedom of a certain Col. McGregor to be as wrong as he wants about Ukraine. The Daily Exposé and Global Research are two other publications that are consistently wrong on Ukraine in my opinion. Nevertheless, they are so absolutely on the money when it comes to Covid that I have no regrets about having donated a few times to them and will do so again.
Here are links to Covid articles that appeared on the Daily Expose just within the last couple of days. For most of them the link itself describes the content. For a couple of them I have structured them as a hyperlink from their headline. I encourage you to take a look. The fact that they continually bug you for money is a fact of life – people who tell the truth in this day and age find it hard to pay the bills. Please have some sympathy.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/18/covid-jab-causes-300-percent-increase-football-deaths/
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/17/how-establishment-crushes-truth-suppresses-good-ideas/
The link between Covid-19, the Covid Vaccine, HIV, and AIDS
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/17/exhaustive-proof-moderna-made-covid-19/
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/15/dr-vernon-coleman-our-governments-have-declared-war-on-us/
The Exposé is my best single source. In addition to them and Global Research in Canada, I have a number of people on Substack. Here are four whose posts of the last couple of days have been excellent: Celia Farber, Jessica Rose, Steve Kirsch and Robert Malone. Celia is also wrong on Russia. So what?
My piece on the Russian mindset yesterday caught the attention of two fellows who have published my work a few times before, whose readership is a couple of orders of magnitude greater than that of this blog. They also are bit more demanding in terms of editorial quality. My efforts today and tomorrow be for them. If they publish my stuff, I will give you links.
Grandma came down this morning as I was changing Marianna's diaper. I told her that I had fed her oatmeal. She grimaced. When I told her it was my daughter, she responded yes but it's her granddaughter. A Mexican standoff. As good as it gets.
I assured her that Marianna had eaten her fill, but Grandma nonetheless went ahead and made cereal. No loss – it will sit in the refrigerator until it is needed. I observe, not for the first time, that the second sex is inclined to complain constantly about being confined to the kitchen and the children, but woe betide the man who tries to relieve them of those tasks. Even if you succeed at times, you will never be free of advice on how it should be done.
That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the morning seems quiet, though the Russians may once again prove me wrong. The strong men, however wrongfooted, are standing up for the rights of their sex; one good-looking woman is getting her beauty sleep as the other goes about caring for the baby the right way. And the children are properly observant and above average amused.
Had to laugh about your kitchen story. My late wife would make me get out of the kitchen as she worked. She did train me to prepare a few things by coaching from the sidelines on occasion. Has come in handy now. I must admit the spice rack remains a mystery of discovery.
I once again decided to take a close look at one of your links, the one that says 92% of UK COVID deaths are among the vaccinated. The author (unknown, not a good sign) relied on a UK health report - particularly Table 10 to make his case. Here a just a few issues:
1. The author failed to publish the footnote to the table:
"In the context of very high vaccine coverage in the population, even with a highly effective vaccine, it is expected that a large proportion of cases, hospitalisations and deaths would occur in vaccinated individuals, simply because a larger proportion of the population are vaccinated than unvaccinated and no vaccine is 100% effective.
This is especially true because vaccination has been prioritised in individuals who are more susceptible or more at risk of severe disease. Individuals in risk groups may
also be more at risk of hospitalisation or death due to non-COVID-19 causes, and thus may be hospitalised or die with COVID-19 rather than because of COVID-19."
2. The author relies on raw numbers to make case. Raw numbers, as you should know, do not tell the full story. Roughly 73% of the UK is fully vaccinated. Of course, there are higher deaths among the vaccinated: there are simply a lot more of them.
3. None of the conclusions the author made about the data agree with the report's conclusions. Nowhere in their report do the indicate that the vaccine is causing more deaths.
4. In another part of the article, the raw data refers to folks that died "with COVID" not because of COVID. Again, that caveat inflates the numbers.
5. The author does not and cannot address why the UK would be such an outlier. There are nearly 200 nations in the world that are dealing with COVID. Why would only one nation seem to have problems with the vaccine? Shouldn't the effect be repeatable in other countries?