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Random Musings on Current Events 6.24.22

Once again it is time for some Random Musings On Current Events from the mind of a quiet, unassuming (at least in my own opinion) person observing the ramblings, rumblings, rants and revelations in the media. Additionally, I know, and it has been proven, that Twitter and Facebook would censor what I have to say so I will say what I feel the need to say in this medium. However, with Elon Musk purchasing Twitter perhaps I will have to take Twitter out of my introduction but not just yet. Time will tell I and for that reason I will not remove Twitter from my Random Musings On Current Events introductory paragraph.

Senators McConnell, Graham, Cornyn, Tillis, Collins, Cassidy, Blunt, Burr, Portman, Capito, Ernst, Murkowski, Young, Toomey, and Romney should be ashamed of themselves and their vote for the “gun control” bill just ramrodded through Congress. Actually, all Senators and Representatives who vote for this bill should be ashamed of themselves considering they all took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. I thought the Senate was supposed to be the national legislative chamber that is reasoned and less susceptible to the whims of faddish and fickle public sentiment and of media whims. Just as soon as this bill is passed, and it goes into effect there should be lawsuits immediately dropped due to the unconstitutionality of its supporting subjective red flag laws and etc. Tell me how this would have prevented the Uvalde shooting and other shootings? Instead, it could empower corrupt local law enforcement, politicians, and other power elites to randomly disarm any of their opponents without due process. When the rational are made out to be the criminal then the criminals are truly the ones in charge and a true war against the rational citizen is being waged in this country. Leon Trotsky must be jumping up with glee in his grave as even the opposition has become more concerned with their public appearances and perceived reelectability than doing the right thing by the Constitution and common citizen.

It appears official now that Roe versus Wade has been overturned. I will not even discuss abortion, which I do not agree with in the majority of instances. What I am happy about is the US Supreme Court has made a decision effectively returning power to make these types of decisions back to the states as the founders intended.  I would imagine the global leftist movement will be rioting and protesting and the police will be doing next to nothing to stop this rioting. In fact, the press will probably claim it is peaceful protesting with a small fringe causing all the trouble. A complete opposite portrayal of what happened on January 6, 2020, in Washington D.C. which was by and large a peaceful protest until a Capitol Police officer shot an unarmed civilian. What can I do? I can no longer carry a weapon to defend myself, the police are no longer capable of responding to violence (i.e Uvalde, riots of 2019), and I would assume a new plague is lurking around the corner that officials will demand masks be worn again. My rational mind is screaming to me that there is something rotten about this picture and the losses of freedom for self-determination and the ability to defend myself and my family.

I read a headline in which Ireland may reintroduce forced mask wearing again according to Stephen Donnelly, Ireland’s pro-lock down Minister for Health. This while others in the EU ministries want to mandate mask wearing every winter. What has happened to the European man and woman? I will never visit anywhere that requires me to wear a mask. So much for my tourism or business dollar. The European mandarins must really be concerned about the impending shortages in food and energy this winter.

“Tech Glitches” have delayed voting results in the county that I live. According to the local Gannet rag, “… county tested its voting results dashboard back in May, but on the night of … primary election, things didn’t go smoothly – so it has revised testing protocols to keep reporting delays from happening again.” Of course, I am to believe all computers are infallible and secure and we do not need to worry about the appearance of any trouble in our voting systems according to experts. These are the same experts that county voting officials rely on to trouble shoot and provide other technical services for the machine’s operations. These county voting officials have no clue how the inner workings of these machines work or what is possible because, to be honest, the county I live in is more interested in hiring people with political connections than spending the money to hire true information technology experts. These same county voting officials apparently do not understand that when they give away the control to understand and know how these machines work, in the name of ease and efficiency, that they have effectively ceded their ability to monitor the vote. This is another argument for the paper ballot because they are not technologically complicated and most anyone can look at and understand how to count paper ballots. I shake my head in disbelief that I am supposed to believe that there was nothing untoward with the 2020 election or any other election since the advent of computerized voting machines being used.

As I acknowledge the Summer Solstice here in the inter mountain west it has been a strange spring having just experienced yet another snow fall in the upper elevations. It has been quite a while since we have experienced this sort of spring and it just seems that the sun has a sort of subdued quality. I had not paid too much attention to this because for other reasons, like for instance grief, I have been barely able to do the minimum required to stay alive. Then late last week, I listened to a couple of podcasts in which one had a gentleman who suggested a form of atmospheric poisoning was occurring in jet contrails and in the other the gentleman mentioned how large the ash plume was from the Tongan volcanic eruption this past January 15th. In fact, the eruption is now considered to have been in the magnitude of Krakatowa’s eruption in 1883. I am somewhat skeptical of the jet chem trails conspiracy considering I have been hearing about this for decades despite knowing cloud seeding experiments were happening in the late 1970. I would think someone would have found or revealed a “smoking gun” proving the jet chem trail conspiracy by now. Maybe they have but I have yet to see any evidence.

On the other hand, the volcanic explosion is a viable reason for a global cool down for a couple of years. After all NASA is reporting that the, “…giant plume of gases, water vapor and dust particles pushed into the sky by the eruption created large pressure disturbances in the atmosphere, leading to strong winds…” The article further elaborated on ionospheric winds and its electric current flipping which really is quite fascinating. However, on a more mundane level tons and tons of particles were pushed up into the outer reaches of our atmosphere. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to deduce that there is more dust potentially reflecting sunlight (to be accurate dust laden with sulfur dioxide gas which reflects solar radiation back to space). This push into the outer reaches of our atmosphere can take years to settle back out into the atmosphere’s lower levels. On top of war in one of Europe’s bread baskets and supply chain break downs thanks to the manmade epidemic it appears we are, indeed, in for a “long volcanic winter”. 

In closing I have only one thing to say, “God bless America and I mean God bless to all who are in this country; both to those who are patriots, those who are enemies and to those who fall somewhere in between.”

August 2021 Reflection

I looked at this blog for the first time in nearly nine months this week and realized that it has been nine months since I have made a post. In my mind it had only been a couple of months and this realization caused me to stop in my tracks and take some moments to reflect upon why. Looking back to August 19, 2021, I realized that this was about the time I came down with the delta variant of COVID. Typing this I can remember thinking, while in the active portion of the disease, that it was time to make a post but I could not muster sufficient will forces to hold a thought for more than what seemed like mere seconds let alone for the time it takes to make an attempt at piecing together a string of paragraphs. This and the fact that as I recovered from COVID my child died and it is no wonder that I have made no posts in such a long time.

I have spoken about my COVID experience with many but I have yet to type my experiences. Let me start by saying that I was not a recipient of the experimental gene therapy treatment for COVID (aka Pfizer, Moderna or any other form of the advertised “COVID Vaccine”) nor will I going into the future.  I attended a wedding sometime around the time of my last posting and it is at this event that I most likely was exposed to the virus as I began showing symptoms within two weeks of the event. I will admit in polite company, however, that I could have picked it up in many other places as the variant was certainly active in the community and surrounding communities where I live.

At first, I did not realize that I was getting sick. In fact, I was digging trenches around my yard to install electrical conduit for a project and thought I was sore from digging. This because I developed severe muscle cramps across my back shoulder area. Not only that there were several active wildfires in the area near where I live and so I was breathing in smoke and I just figured my discomfort was a result of these. Needless to say, I was getting sick and experiencing no recognizable general immune responses in my body.

Finally, after a couple of days I developed a headache and a mild fever settled in. It was at this time that I finally realized that I was sick and it was time to settle down and let my body heal and fight this disease. During this time, I took a course of Ivermectin and thank goodness I have a doctor who believes in alternative means of treatment and does not solely rely on the FDA-CDC-WHO information that was being disseminated. Yes, I felt really bad for about five days and strangely my normal immune response to a pathogen in my body was different. I felt worse in the morning and better after eating food despite having an upset stomach. This is completely opposite of how I normally feel when fighting a disease. After the initial discomfort I began to start a slow period of recuperation but I will say a sort of brain fog and general fatigue settled in that lasted more than a month.

One may ask if I took the PCR test to confirm if I had COVID? The answer is no but what I did do is I had my blood tested for the antibodies associated with COVID and I had both types of antibodies tested. For me this not only is a confirmation that I had COVID but that I successfully defeated the disease and that my body strengthened my general immunity and specific immunities against COVID infections. A defense system far superior to any of the experimental gene therapy treatments being pushed by the government/pharmaceutical complex. Additionally, as later variants have swept through my community, I believe that I have been exposed as I have experienced similar symptoms as I experienced with the delta variant, however, the symptoms have been far less and of extremely short duration (1-2 days).

One last conclusion that I have reached regarding my experience is that there is no way this virus developed in the wild. The way it attacked my body with little to no normal symptoms initially makes me pause and consider that it was designed to bypass my normal initial general immune response. Additionally, the responses that I did have were unlike any that I have had in the past. The muscle aches were unlike any that I have had before for such a low fever. It was as if there was an attempt to trick and bypass my general immune response so that my body would not recognize what was happening. Also, I always feel worse later in the day when I am sick never the opposite. Lastly, my stomach was upset in a manner that, in the past, were I to eat I would only make it worse. Not with COVID as I needed to eat no matter what my stomach felt like and felt better afterward. In my mind, I now have no doubt that this novel coronavirus was engineered as a weapon to defeat my normal general immune responses to a pathogen.

Grief

According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary the first definition of grief is a deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement or a cause of such suffering. I have been in the midst of a great and deep grief these past many months and I have been unable to post anything to this blog for fear of opening the wound caused by my grief too much. I have needed some time to process, deal with, and come to some sort of a semblance of terms with my grief.

This past October a child of mine died and, for now, I will not go into detail how or why my child died. I continue to seek help and move deeper into the anguish, sorrow and other emotions that this event has caused in mine and my family’s life. So much so that I am now in the midst of dealing with PTSD from this event and other events in my life that my child’s death has triggered. I will say that I am committed to turning and facing this grief head on, however, which is why I need time.

Needless to say, this blog has not been resting quietly in my mind at least and I have even begun to reaffirm my commitment to this blog. Not the least of which is it appears that the political leadership in the United States and much of Europe appears to be evil and hell bent on escalating conflict with a nuclear power instead of defusing conflict. It is funny how the specter of nuclear conflict can at least temporarily clear the dense grief induced fog from one’s being.

Soon, more to come with some changes in format, naming, and a commitment to post more consistently.

Mask Madness 

Mask Madness                                                                         

Sitting here at my desk a few days after the governor of my state reinstituted mask mandates for all indoor public activities and places and finally decided to research and see if I could prove one of my hypothesis. The hypothesis being that besides a N95 mask all other masks do not have tight enough weave or properties to stop a virus. Following are the results of an hour or so of rooting around the internet and looking at the specification sheets for paper masks and N95 masks currently in my possession. I will add that the only information I could find on cloth are results from Wake Forest Baptist Health from earlier this year.

What I found is the National Institute for Health has published that the size of the COVID-19 virus is about 1 micron. For those of you who do not know what a micron is think of it as 1/1,000th of a millimeter. If the thickness of a dime is 1 millimeter then the size of a coronavirus is 1/1000th of the thickness of a dime. Pretty dang small in other words.

As expected the N95 mask is able to filter particles greater than 0.3 times the size of a coronavirus 98% of the time. This is definitely a suitable mask to wear, however, the cost is nearly ten times that of a typical paper face mask one can purchase and who knows how much more costly than a bandana or other homemade face mask?

Moving onto the” paper face mask its labeling shows nothing concerning the size of particle that it will filter. However, there is a box on the carton that clearly states in all capital letters, “Not for medical use. Intended for single use only – discard after use. This general use mask cannot eliminate the risk of contracting and infectious disease”. I want to point out that this is the mask I see being worn by the far majority of people out in public. I also want to note that I know several who wear their masks more than once to include me.

Lastly, according to the Wake Forrest study, “The best homemade masks achieved 79% filtration as compared to (paper) surgical masks (62% to 65%) and N95 masks (97%). But other homemade masks tested performed significantly worse, sometimes demonstrating as little as 1% filtration…The best-performing design was made of two layers of high-quality, heavyweight quilters cotton with a thread count of 180 or more, and those with an especially tight weave ad thicker thread such as batiks. A double-layer mask with a simple cotton outer layer and an inner layer of flannel also performed well”.

What does my limited research tell me one may ask? It tells me that if I truly want to protect myself I need to spend nearly ten times as much money for a mask that will protect me. It also tells me that the mask mandates are arbitrary and really do not help the public. If it was to help the public the government and quasi government agencies (i.e. CDC and NIH) would make these facts easily accessible to the general public. Based on my previous conclusions it further tells me that politicians and bureaucrats in the health industry and government writ large are essentially intellectually lazy and or really are just trying to appear to do something or have another agenda or who knows what else that I have not thought of.

I say intellectually lazy because if I were to impose an imposition on a state or county I think that I would want to explain the facts to those I purportedly seek to protect. Not providing this information or worse not even thinking to look this information up before making a decision independent of the CDC or NIH or whatever agency shows a lack of discernment, healthy skepticism and or a basic lack of science and math. Of course the more nefarious explanation of this could be that there is a hidden agenda behind the gross overreach of executive power but I will not go into that in this writing. What I will say is that at a minimum we have elected officials who (including their staffs) who appear to have very little if any comprehension of basic math and science. Additionally, we have given career bureaucrats with dubious agendas the power to tell us what to wear and not to wear.

Lastly, this tells me that I really have nothing to gain wearing a mask other than making others feel better for a threat that really is no worse than an influenza. Additionally, I am not going to spend my money on a N95 mask for a virus that is no more virulent than influenza at worst and the common cold at best. Additionally, my next course of action will be to ask anyone who confronts me with not wearing a mask to state the science they are basing their decision to wear a mask on. I will not accept because this is what the CDC or NIH has said as an answer.

Mea Culpa 4.7.20

I must admit a whole hardy and heartfelt mea culpa this early Tuesday evening of April 7, 2020 somewhere in the Pacific Time Zone. Somewhere in the Pacific Time Zone not too far away from the cold soulless digital capital of Silicon Valley yet far enough away that I can still enjoy a somewhat if fleeting analog existence. I say that I have to admit a Mea Culpa is that my site has been down for months now and though I would like to admit it is the fault of some three letter government agency, the fault of some digital robber baron or the fault of some international leftist organization I cannot. I would love to be able to, but I must remember that I was truly at fault for my sabbatical, absence, vacation, dropping off the face of the earth or whatever you may choose to call it. Yes, as I have said and keep making a point of bringing to my readers attention it was my fault for the site dropping off and not returning in a timely manner. Most of all it was my fault for not updating my credit card with the hosting service that hosts this site of self-pontification, drivel, and indulgence. Additionally, I learned after my site was lost that I could have saved all my site in one easy and convenient file instead of saving each individual post. That and my being extremely busy doing my “day jobs” so to speak as this site by no means pays for itself. Perhaps someday, at least a day in my dreams that someday may become true, this site will pay for itself but that is certainly not the case now nor will it be for the immediate and foreseeable future as I write this as sort of therapeutic release which is far more valuable that any form of currency exchange.  

So, for now, if any readers that I may have had in the past manage to find my site again or for those who are just finding this site I will publish and reestablish my past posts in some way or another. However, I am not quite sure of the format that I will do this nor when I will get a chance to do so. I say this because despite my having been absent from the digital opinionosphere for the last four months or so. So much has happened and trust me when I say that I have quite a few opinions on the events. To punctualize, in a way all that has happened, I type this while sitting at a desk while under a shelter in place order from my state’s governor. So much has happened that at times it makes my head spin and, trust me, it spins not from the beer that I consumed earlier from a growler of beer that I had saved from one of my local brew pubs from before the shelter in place order went into effect.