In the wake of a voter-approved law, Subaru and Kia dealers in Massachusetts have disabled systems that allow remote starts and send maintenance alerts.
Source: A Fight Over the Right to Repair Cars Turns Ugly
Just my two cents. If you believe in permaculture do not buy cars from Subaru or Kia. These auto dealers are exhibiting the exact opposite of sustainability and the ability to recycle and reuse. And they’re simply being mean.
Lots of other places to shop. Enjoy. Be well.
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natural immunity was more protective against infection than vaccination (in California during September, 8.3-fold vs 35.0-fold).
Sometimes these statistics are rather confusing I would assume that that is saying that you had an 8.3 fold less likelihood of getting sick again if you had been vaccinated. And a 35 fold less likelihood of getting sick again if you had had covid before.
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Similarly, those who had a previous infection and remain unvaccinated are also highly protected against serious omicron disease.
Given now that CDC recognizes the protective effect of prior infection, it is time to update vaccination policies and school or work-entry requirements across federal and state or county governments. Those with natural immunity should have equal status as those vaccinated. Demonstrating a prior infection is no more difficult than demonstrating vaccination. Many European countries recognize that immunity due to prior infection is equal to vaccination
There are literally books written on this subject and I don’t intend to try to go into depth here but many doctors and virologists and microbiologists are frustrated by the po-little-docs governing our response to the epidemic.
This is going to be similar to the organic versus pesticide farming debate in my opinion. The pesticide industrial complex has increased food production and has benefited the world in many ways and destroyed it in others. DDT, Roundup, etc.
Vaccines have saved many people with crippled immune systems but they are not the glorious solution to all our problems. As we are also finding out with antibiotic resistance. In many respects vaccines are analogous to a Ford Pinto. There are many people who drove Ford Pintos to work and play regularly, and believe that they were valuable automobiles. There are other people who were completely right saying “yeah but _they blow up_ when you hit them from the back.” Our biggest problem today is that the vaccine manufacturers are completely immune from lawsuits by an act of Congress. Do you think that if Ford Motor Company had been _completely immune_ to lawsuits that we would be driving the cars we have today or would we be still driving cars that blow up when they’re hit from behind.
The worst thing about the current vaccines in my opinion is that they target a single Spike protein. They are barely a vaccine at all. As the article above points out; when you are infected with a live virus your immune system is exposed to a variety of other proteins and features of the virus: but what is not mentioned in the article nor anywhere that I’ve seen is that you are also exposed to all the viral mutants that are generated in your body. A covid infection is estimated to have around 10 to the power of 11 viruses. Wow!:-)
With an RNA virus about one in every million is a mutant. This means that for someone who is infected with the original covid virus, their immune system was exposed to about 100,000 mutants albeit at extremely low levels. Which means that in most cases of natural immunity the person had some exposure to Delta, epsilon, omicron, and 99 thousand 9 hundred and 97 other variants and strains. Depending on how early a successful variant arose your immune system may have had a very good grasp on it by the time you got well. It is this exposure to other variants not just other proteins that gives natural immunity an incredible benefit over RNA vaccines and it is literally impossible to study how much is this effect. This is one of the appalling things about our covid testing. The testing is about making our medical industrial complex money and not about protecting people. If they wanted to protect people they would have quickly developed a test for identifying whether you have ever had covid in the past and thus have natural immunity. But this would not sell vaccines. And if you’ve ever had a positive PCR test _without having ever been vaccinated you have a robust natural immunity and _you are the best member of our_ herd immunity!
Booster shots can be important for increasing immunity, but a secondary exposure is far, far more beneficial. Boosters particularly with RNA vaccines _will not_ and cannot increase immunity to another strain or variant. Also, by withholding information on what are actually in the “boosters” that are being touted by the medical industrial complex they are actually endangering people. From what I can tell some of the boosters aren’t really boosters but are new vaccines to the new strains. A booster is _only_ a booster if made exactly like the original vaccine. And of course such a booster will do nothing for any new variant.
There are people today that want bovine growth hormone and antibiotics in their food because it makes their food cheaper and in some cases easier to acquire, there are others that would rather not be exposed to that material.
The Best to you all!
Henry Miller is still failing to disclose his collaborations with Monsanto as he attacks their critics and competitors .
Source: Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Hit on Organic Food
My friends, these big companies are not stupid. They have learned over the years, and their PR departments have SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) to handle many of the situations that arise.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s even before the “internet”, you could log onto newsgroups over a modem at 9600k 😮.
On a news group focusing on printers any questions about hewlett-packard’s print quality was immediately met with an effort to portray any such problem as due to inferior paper. When challenged about exactly which paper manufacturers were doing such a terrible job. With the likelihood that a paper manufacturer would have enough credibility to sue hp. Suddenly the people claiming paper problems vanished. couldn’t possibly been a hp spokeshole.
It is incredibly easy to pay someone to check blogs, post responses or news articles, and even write scientific papers, and then for the company to write it all off as “advertising” .
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Bob
“The country’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft, which has been in orbit around Mars for nearly one year, captured a “selfie” video that shows the craft passing in front of the planet. This video was taken by a camera on the end of a narrow arm that extends 1.6 meters away from the vehicle and is used by operators to monitor the health of the spacecraft..”
Source: A new video of Tianwen-1 flying above Mars is pretty epic
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I have said before how I believe that permaculture must support exploration and at the same time accept the cost of exploration. I have to be better than average in my recycling and general Earth caring because my smartphone and my love of exploring new things comes at a cost to the Earth; in rare earth metals mining, in toxic pollution by the used material, etc, etc.
Rejoice and
Be well my friends.
One ad featured images of a woman eating junk food and linked ADHD to obesity.
Source: Instagram and TikTok pull ads from startup Cerebral linking ADHD to obesity
Not amused by Instagram and tiktok. They are sure running advertisement for medications that inhibit the immune system in the midst of the covid shenanigans. But if somebody suggests that an ADHD diagnosis means a five-fold increase in obesity — that can’t be allowed.
It couldn’t possibly be that somebody looking carefully and honestly into this would connect the _medications_ _treating ADHD_ with a five-fold increase in obesity because that would cost the biomed industry money. And we couldn’t have that could we?
People it’s not just me getting older that causes me to worry about the thought police.
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https://www.glamosquito.org/frequently-asked-questions
Written by a PR firm
Willful ignorance
Strategic stupidity
Have you ever done AERIAL adult mosquito control?
We have treated larval sources by using helicopters to disperse pesticides in hard to reach areas, but have not utilized aircraft to control adult mosquitoes. We have not yet been faced with a situation where this approach was needed/warranted.
Careful to not say “Yes”. Also by limiting it to adult mosquitoes it gives the misleading impression that the spraying for mosquito control in general is less than it is. Willful ignorance
Strategic stupidity.
We will conduct aerial adult mosquito control if conditions are warranted in our area. Our first priority is protecting public health, and will use this approach, if necessary.
Yes. This is all they needed to say.
How would you notify the public if an aerial adult mosquito control is scheduled?
While we are not required to provide any specific form of notification, vector control districts go to great lengths to ensure the public is well aware of disease risks and pending treatments when necessary. We will provide pre-notification via our website, social media sites, news alert list-serve, public postings in the treatment area, and through the media to the greatest extent possible.
Not required to notify. Which means that “to the greatest extent possible is… not possible. :-)
How safe are aerial pesticide applications?
Aerial applications pose no more or less risk than truck-mounted or hand-help pesticide applications. Airplanes allow Districts to protect public health over a larger area more quickly, and more efficiently. The decision to use this approach is made by the District based on current disease and risk parameters.The active ingredients in the pesticides used for aerial mosquito control are products commonly found in many over-the-counter insecticides available to the general public. Aerial applications actually use less pesticide than is commonly used around the home because aerial equipment disperses much smaller droplets to better target mosquitoes.
“Over the counter” ! Laughing… so was DDT and Roundup.
The decision to conduct adult/aerial mosquito control is never taken lightly. The products are less specific and can impact non-target species, therefore will only be conducted when public health is threatened and other means have not been adequate to reduce these risks.
Of course it is not taken lightly!!! As with most government agencies it is use it or lose it. They need to use resources to prove that they are (GLAVC is) needed. It must be a heavy burden. Sigh :-)
ERS used retail scanner data to estimate the average prices of 153 fresh and processed fruits and vegetables. The report includes estimates of the cost of meeting the recommendations of USDA’s recently released 2010 Dietary Guidelines
Source: How Much Do Fruits and Vegetables Cost?
in 2008, an adult on a 2,000- calorie diet could satisfy recommendations for vegetable and fruit consumption in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (amounts and variety) at an average price of $2 to $2.50 per day, or approximately 50 cents per edible cup equivalent.
So for around $60 a month you can buy pesticide laden fruits and vegetables. Would you be willing to pay $90 a month for your own fruits and vegetables? grown in your own garden. Just an idea for a business.
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The breakthrough may lead one day to new supplies of animal organs for transplant into human patients.
Source: In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig
Oh my this is not good! I remember a few years ago when the US was all upset about Chinese “peasants” living with their animals, primarily chickens and _pigs_, and how all the amazing geniuses in the US were horrified that this would promote the exchange of animal viruses and humans. Well let me tell you as a microbiologist that living with your animals is nothing, _nothing_ at all compared to having their living cells implanted in you. And then given immunosuppressant drugs. Our medical establishment couldn’t design a better method for creating a pig virus that can infect humans if they tried.
Oh well it’s all good! The best can be made from the biggest mistakes and the worst can be made from the best intentions.
Be well all of you!
Molnupiravir is an orally available antiviral drug candidate currently in phase III trials for the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Molnupiravir increases the frequency of viral RNA mutations and impairs SARS-CoV-2 replication in animal models and in humans. Here, we establish the molecular mech …
Source: Mechanism of molnupiravir-induced SARS-CoV-2 mutagenesis – PubMed
Biochemical assays show that the RdRp uses the active form of molnupiravir, β-D-N4-hydroxycytidine (NHC) triphosphate, as a substrate instead of cytidine triphosphate or uridine triphosphate. When the RdRp uses the resulting RNA as a template, NHC directs incorporation of either G or A, leading to mutated RNA products.
It not only mutates the viral genome RNA but it also mutates your own human cells RNA.
1) The very cells in your body that are working the hardest to express new RNA are your immune system cells trying to generate templates for antibody production to fight the virus. This drug cannot be good for your immune system.
2) covid-19 is obviously an RNA virus. Because of the chemical nature of RNA and proofreading factors, RNA viruses already mutate approximately 10 times faster than DNA organisms. This high rate of mutation allows them to generate potential variants more quickly. I definitely question trying to increase their rate of mutagenesis. Especially with the likelihood of missed dosages and other factors of the real world.
And in one of my other posts http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/report-says-monsanto-linked-pesticide-is-to-blame-for-microcephaly-outbreak-not-zika/ I speculated that one of the unforeseen problems with the real world versus scientific research was the issue of chlorination. I would bet very few scientific labs research the reaction of chlorinated tap water with the drug products they are working on.
