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Reply to: A look at how Israelis build shelters for random missile attacks Posted 3 months ago

Really interesting! I admire the Israelis’ courage, ingenuity, and commitment!

Reply to: News roundup for Fri, Jul 16, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021

I think we had to invade when Osama bin Laden was hiding there and al Quada had its mujahideen training camps there. Their decision. We did a lot to protect women and promote the education of all children. We were criticized for not prohibiting the cultural practice of dancing boys who are exploited by adult men. But could the US have eliminated a popular local custom? I was horrified. by the girl who was mutilated because she wanted to go to school. But again, while we tried, how much could we do to change a deeply-rooted attitude toward women and education? We did not make the mess, and there turned out to be little we could do to change it. I think our sudden withdrawal was entirely politically motivated and had nothing to do with the well-being of any Afghan, which was irresponsible. I think Europe would be well-advised to shut its borders and be judicious about who is allowed in. We’re trying to help those who worked with the US, who are obviously in danger now. We are no longer rich, stable, and prosperous, and I don’t think we should try to do the impossible. It was Afghans working with the Russians opposed by nationalist Afghans which triggered the endless war starting in 1979, and so weakened the Soviet Union that it was an important factor in its fall. Maybe there are enough Afghans now who’d like to work with the outer world for internal change.

Reply to: News roundup for Tue, Jul 20, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021

I agree that it may become very large, with many deaths, most in the unvaxxed, some in the vaxxed. I just read a new article at Your Local Epidemiologist (thank you, Stephanie, for introducing me to that site!) it was on how to persuade different groups of the unvaxxed. It recommended telling those concerned about side effects, which is most people, that only 0.5% experience a severe reaction. First, that much is true. A not inconsiderable number experience a fatal reaction, from too vigorous of an immuneby e response to the vaccine, which is designed to cause inflammation to cause antibodies to be created. That was supposed to be a response which would reassure everyone about vaccine safety. But that’s one in two hundred people. Meaning that severe reactions are not uncommon. I really can’t think of a good answer to that. Chances are, you’ll do fine. But many do not. Both my daughter and I are now fully Pfizer vaccinated. I’m glad we did it. But I continue to be afraid because of Delta and what might come next. it looks as though 13% continue to be hardcore refusers and 12% still hesitant but possibly persuadable. But the danger is real. Look at VAERS reports on adverse reactions, including deaths. Read the details of the reports before saying they are fraudulent. The committee of CDC and FDA professionals used VAERS reports ton myocarditis in a couple hundred young men to conclude that they needed to warn that this rare vaccine reaction really could occur. I don’t know what the answer is. I’m vaxxed (but still vaccine wary), still mask up every time I go out and wash my hands as soon as I get home. I’m on Team Vax. But we have to be honest about vaccine injury, even death. Ultimately I think it’s admirable to take the chance and get vaxxed because that is what is best for society, for the world. But life is very hard forever for the vaccine-injured.

Reply to: News roundup for Fri, Jul 16, 2021 Posted July 21, 2021

I think Brazil e nostro means that Brazil is his and all Brazilians’ beloved homeland which all are committed to loving and serving. Nothing sinister.

Reply to: News roundup for Fri, Jul 16, 2021 Posted July 21, 2021

I don’t think the US could have done nation-building in Afghanistan. The Taliban won because most Afghans feel that it represents their land, culture, and religion very well and they don’t need another one, and resent attempts to impose one. I am like most Westerners, angry at its treatment of women and dissenters, and I am convinced our ways are better. But we did not have the ability to change their way of thinking and impose our system of representative democracy and human rights. I wish we had. I don’t agree with everything in this article, but the author soberly explains the futility of what we tried to do. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2021/07/06/afghanistan-war-malkasian-book-excerpt-497843

Reply to: News roundup for Tue, Jul 20, 2021 Posted July 21, 2021

Stephanie, I enjoy these links you put up, look forward to Tuesday’s and Fridays, and spend hours reading them. I appreciate the effort you put into this!

Reply to: Confused about vaccine info (Discussion) Posted July 10, 2021

Thank you. We got the Pfizer vaccine and I’m confident in it. I’d like to find out about the sterilizing aspect, though. I found a BBC article that thought it likely did, but it’s harder than I realized to determine. I’d like to know if that might be a characteristic of the mRNA technology. I think its being fairly effective against the variants, including Delta, is because it provides non-specific cellular immunity as well as antibodies, also impressive.

Reply to: Confused about vaccine info (Discussion) Posted July 10, 2021

You said you would be willing to answer questions about the vaccine, in this case, the mRNA ones. Are they sterilizing? Meaning they completely prevent covid infection in the vaccinated person? Even usually? I thought I had read that they were, but can’t find that information now. I found an article about an Israeli study not yet published at that time (Feb ‘21) which found that it might prevent infection and not just symptomatic cases. Could you help me? Thank you!

Reply to: Is it true miso soup prevents radiation poisoning? Posted July 10, 2021

Lentil soup also prevents radiation damage, and plain black tea. Adding half an ounce of dried seaweed to the miso or lentil soup doubles the benefits!

Reply to: Stocking a pet first aid kit with meds Posted July 8, 2021

I had read that rabbits live for eight to twelve years, and was very sad when he died of kidney failure at only six. I thought it was stasis again and missed the signs obvious in retrospect. The vet missed them too, only shaved him again and gave him an appetite stimulant. We kept him in a Coroplast rectangle with six inch sides eight by four feet with room to hop around and a wooden shelter. Hay, Timothy Oxbow pellets, a lot of veggies and greens every night. We let him run around the house for several hours every evenning and my daughter was the delegated rabbit catcher at bedtime. It was a terrible shock to lose him. Since my daughter was born in 2000, we’ve had many gerbils, two hamsters in separate enclosures, so mice (amazingly individual and personable), three guinea pigs, fish, the rabbit, five parakeets, one canary, three cats, and one dog. My daughter learned to love and care for pets. But, as you say, it was a lot of work and heartache. I wouldn’t want to get any more.

Reply to: Stocking a pet first aid kit with meds Posted July 6, 2021

Wow! I’m in awe of your pet-keeping abilities! I had given sub-Q treatments nearly every day, eventually every day, for a cat in kidney failure, they prolonged his life for three years and were easy to do. I asked the vet clueless about guinea pigs, and she did it, but I think Mattie needed reglan, Critical Care, and water given with a feeding syringe. our current vet doesn’t think sub-cutaneous fluid infusion with Ringer’s Lactate is useful, but I think it would be. I took care of many pets for many years, loved them all, but their sicknesses and deaths were very painful and I couldn’t go through that again. Although we still have a 6 year old Aussie, Polly, a 9 year old cat, Harlequin, we took in as a stray, 4 year old bobcat mix we took in as a rescue, Havoc, and a 9 year old parakeet, Sprite. I just hope I can see them through competently and lovingly and never get any more.

Reply to: Stocking a pet first aid kit with meds Posted July 5, 2021

Seb was gentle and sweet, but it was painful dealing with his many episodes of GI stasis. I had to write tiny reminders of dosages and weaning down for two months at a time every time. Ultimately he died of kidney failure. If I had known then what I know now, I could probably have saved him with what I’m giving our 9 year old parakeet now, Homeoanimal Kidney Failure.

Reply to: Stocking a pet first aid kit with meds Posted July 5, 2021

Reglan. My phone fights my spelling of everything.

Reply to: Stocking a pet first aid kit with meds Posted July 5, 2021

Replan and Cisapride that worked at different ends of the digestive tract to restore motility in cases of GI stasis, and infant simethicone for the pain. DEFINITELY pack those.

Reply to: Stocking a pet first aid kit with meds Posted July 5, 2021

We had a cocoa and white Dutch for six years. He got GI stasis many times, I had two medications (I’d have to look them up), and I force fed him Critical Care and water. The best solution was having the vet shave his whole body so he didn’t groom himself and swallow hair. I’d definitely pack all those things. We had a guinea pig who died in less than a day of GI stasis. The vet said she had no idea what to do when I rushed her there as an emergency.

Reply to: Confused about vaccine info (Discussion) Posted July 4, 2021

I discovered Peak Prosperity and Chris Martenson’s excellent almost daily talks on Covid in March 2020, at the same time I discovered The Prepared, both wonderful sources of information on Covid and many other topics! Chris took a hiatus but recently started another series on YouTube, usually on Covid. I followed his and Pierre Kiry’s recommended regimen for a year: D3, zinc, quercetin, melatonin, and would have followed the recommendations for hospitalization if it had been necessary. I got the two doses of Pfizer in May and stopped taking them. It takes a certain amount of discipline and buying the supplements regularly. I’m actually relieved to have gotten the vaccine and not have to worry about it anymore. I think the goal should be eradication. It’s a terrible, bioengineered virus, with several methods of infiltrating human cells and it can attack many different organs and systems, doing severe or fatal damage, often causing autoimmune long Covid for very long periods of time, many a year and a half and counting. I think it could be eradicated. Two of the serotypes of polio were eradicated by means of almost every person in the world being vaccinated, and I think the last one will be eradicated soon: it survives in only a few places. That should be our goal with Covid.

Reply to: Stocking a pet first aid kit with meds Posted July 4, 2021

I’ve been gradually weaning her off of it since the first week of twice a day. The drug has enough risks that I wouldn’t want to give it to her every day indefinitely. I looked to see what Dr. Marty Goldstein recommended: he said fish oil and nettles. I ordered Strellalab Omega Chews with salmon oil, Itch and Allergy Relief, and Pets Health Solution Allergy Relief for Dogs, turkey-flavored chews, with quercetin, nettle, turmeric, bromelain, burdock, and licorice root. They seem to be working. I’d pack both Ataquel for an acute condition, and the two natural supplements for long-term use.

Reply to: Confused about vaccine info (Discussion) Posted June 27, 2021

This discusses VAERS death reports from a month ago. Latest VAERS Data Show: 5,165 Deaths Reported Following COVID Vaccines Not all such reports are accurate, though most are reported with sincere belief, and I think most are true vaccine reactions. Only a small fraction of vaccine reactions, even fatal ones, are reported to VAERS, the official FDA and CDC channel for reaction reports by doctors or individuals. Everyone can access them and review the details. The CDC became concerned enough by reports of endocarditis shortly after the vaccine in young men that they scheduled a meeting to discuss it. The first rotavirus vaccine and the oral Sabin polio vaccine were taken off the market in developed countries based on reports made to VAERS. If you don’t believe a woman who reports her husband dying of a heart attack twelve hours after the vaccine, who are you going to believe? Of course that in itself is not proof, but it is evidence when many more than usual die of the same thing in the same timeframe. Nothing provides ironclad proof.

Reply to: Confused about vaccine info (Discussion) Posted June 27, 2021

The other main symptom of vaccine encephalitis in infants (and others) is extreme lethargy, somnolence, and a diminished level of consciousness, but it is hard to identify these symptoms as being a medical emergency in a baby. Even if a hospital recognized them as such, which it probably wouldn’t, there is little effective treatment available. Maybe (dangerous) steroids to reduce swelling.

Reply to: Confused about vaccine info (Discussion) Posted June 27, 2021

All vaccines cause inflammation to cause the production of antibodies. It is common for the inflammation to affect the brain and cause neurological disorders. Vaccine encephalitis is a thing, and much more common than is recognized. In infants the most common symptoms are screaming syndrome, constant, inconsolable screaming for four hours or longer. I screamed like this for several days after my first DPT at three months old for several days and it caused Asperger’s in me. My daughter screamed like this for four days and nights, sixteen hours a day, reacting to the hep-B vaccine st birth, given without my knowledge or permission. I had said I didn’t want her to get it, as I had read it often caused autism. And it did. you seem to be knowledgeable enough to be familiar with vaccine encephalitis. When it affects mainly the language center of the brain, as many strokes do, we call it autism. Asperger’s may result from less severe brain inflammation, often for a shorter length of time. Several witnesses testified on the hep-B vaccine in infants causing encephalitis, autism, or death, at the congressional hearing in May 1999, a year before my daughter was born. Also see Judy Converse, one of the witnesses: she wrote a book: When Your Doctor is Wrong: The Hepatitis-B Vaccine and Autism. The reason so many have refused and continue to refuse the Covid vaccine (mistakenly for the most part, in my opinion: I got both doses of Pfizer even cognizant of the risk), is because at this point everyone realizes, at least on some level, that vaccines cause autism. And that most medical authorities for the past thirty years have not told the truth about it, either through commonly-held delusion or conscious lies. So many do not believe what authorities say now about vaccines. The Covid vaccine HAS caused many deaths, as you can see from temporal spikes in reports of deaths which revert to baseline shortly after getting the vaccine. Heart attacks, platelet disorders, deep vein thrombosis, cytokine cascades, and others. I still think it is good to take the vaccine, Covid being for most even more dangerous. But both are realities.

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