not just an STD probably spread via orgies, but a large percentage of the victims have HIV or other STDs, suggesting that they are a subgroup of gays who are very very promiscuous.
41% had HIV median age 38 Transmission suspected to have occurred through sexual activity 95% of cases Presentation in this series 95% rash (with 64% having less than 10 lesions) 73% anogenital lesions 41% had mucosal lesions (with 54 having a single genital lesion)
Bet you didn't even know it happened.A total 11,139 (alive) and 161 (deaths) alerts were investigated; 1,076 contacts were identified and followed; 909 laboratory samples (805 blood and 104 swab) were tested and 2,037 persons vaccinated (301 contacts vaccines, 1301 contacts of contacts and 435 Health care workers).
here, covid is still around (about 2000 cases a day but few deaths) but the real number is probably much higher because the community surveillence numbers of random population is higher.
The government is pushing vaccine booster, but they are not popular, so the gov't might have to throw out a huge number of out of date shots.
I got my basic AZ vaccine, but no booster. Why? Because the original vaccine was for the original Covid virus, and it doesn't work well against mutations like Omicorn varient.
But the good news is that this is mild and a lot fewer deaths from it. For example, no recent covid deaths: just the normal ones (and only one of the neighbors, who was dying from heart problems, tested positive). But the cases mean that some beds are set aside for covid isolation.
We have elders from the area die every couple of days, But the neighborhood is upset because a neighbor's 40 year old grandson just died of a heart attack. No he didn't just get the vaccine and he didn't have covid. He had cirrhosis from alcoholism.
our main problem now is Dengue fever, the fact that a lot of kids didn't get their routine shots, and the worry about the high price of food that could cause hunger in the next few months.
The high price of diesel and fertilizer. BBM is trying to find cheap fertilizer for the small farmers, but if they can't improve things, a lot of small farmers will go broke and the crop will be smaller than usual.
On top of this, there is a bird flu epidemic in local poultry, meaning fewer chickens and higher prices for KFC /Jolibee fried chicken and balut.
Covid is still a major problem: a huge increase in cases in Asia.
Much of Asia is in the midest of an outbreak of these varients: Japan reports 150 thousand cases, which is overwhelming their hospitals, partly because the staff is sick and/or in quarantine and unable to work. But deaths? Not so much. Indeed, it's hard to find the number of deaths. For example, this article reports everything in detail but at the end says:
The number of seriously ill patients in the capital was 18 on July 20, a decrease of one from the previous day.
this website reports 135,239 new cases and 54 new deaths in Japan
So why is China locking everyone down? And what is it about their bank problems?
if one has to take the MSM of the US with a bit of scepticism, one really has to wonder what news stories are being censored in China.
THen you have a worldwide farmers revolt against the green tyrants. From the ManilaTimes
The farmers' actions in the Netherlands mimicked previous protests around the world and could foreshadow similar uprisings against government overreach. For example, the so-called yellow vest movement in France began as a protest against increased nationwide fuel taxes. Similar protests could soon happen in the UK and parts of the European Union where natural gas and energy costs are near historic levels, according to Benny Peiser, the director of the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation. In the UK, increased prices are expected to send 24 percent of households, or about 6.5 million households, into fuel poverty.
Aimee’s 2019 interview with Erlich for “Mutha” Magazine, Erlich said of his videos, “time and time again, it’s a tool that doesn’t fail”:
“One time, Davon [aka Miz Jade, one of the drag queens on the show] brought his five-year-old nephew over to my apartment and we showed him the first episode of Sez Me. His nephew was raised in church and he didn’t know that Davon does drag. He was commenting out loud, like “What is it, a boy? A boy can’t wear a dress.” So he was conflicted but he wanted to keep watching and he thought it was really funny. And he would say things like “Oh, but you can’t be gay. Gay’s not good.” But he kept asking to watch more and more, and then at the end he said, “I wanna see more of it.” And we said “That’s it. That’s all we have for now.” Then he goes, “So I would need to be on it.” So Davon said, “If you want to be on it you have to talk with a drag queen,” and he goes, “That’s cool.” This kid that forty-five minutes ago had a real issue with drag queens and a boy wearing a dress, because he heard some things in church—forty-five minutes later this kid is ready to be on screen with a drag queen. So then Davon pulled out his phone and showed him pictures of himself in drag and actually kind of came out to him, and he was totally chill about it. That was the point where I knew that, time and time again, it’s a tool that doesn’t fail.”
Erlich is also the creator of the Dragtivity Book, which
“features 20 fabulous pages -‘find your own drag name,’ ‘circle your pronouns,’ and ‘match the styling objects,’ and “gives kids an introduction to the art of drag to helps them to unpack stereotypes and see beyond the gender binary in the world around them.”
[A page from Sez Me’s “Dragtivity Book”]
Although proponents of Drag Queen Story Hour attempt to sanitize drag culture, not everyone in that community is cheering the growing popularity of these sorts of programs. For instance, a drag queen named Kitty Demure has chided parents who “might want to look like they’re with it” by introducing their children in drag culture.
Advocates of programs like Drag Queen Story Hour, Drag Brunches, and “Drag Your Kid to Pride” like to present such events merely as family-friendly ways to build confidence, empathy, and self-expression. Yet these attempts to present an anodyne “all-ages” drag culture and claim drag has no relation to overt sexual behavior strains credulity. It requires us not only to ignore several actual instances of grooming, but also the very experiences that introduced performers like Cholula Lemon into drag culture in the first place. Many private school parents are through with being gaslit that drag culture is somehow appropriate for children.
being trans means never having to say you are sorry: while the Biden administration lauds the trans doctor, they are ignoring the elephant in the room: The excess nursing home deaths cause in Pennsylvania under a policy to place infectious covid patients back into nursing homes. The article points fingers at the governor, but who was the expert in the Wolf administration who advised and supported this policy?
Specifically, a state Health Department memo that said nursing homes must accept COVID-positive patients. Federal guidance said they can or should.
so what do you do if you work for the government? Obey the regulations or do what is right?
Answer: You obey guidelines, or you are in danger of being ostracized or ridiculed or losing your job (been there, done that).
“We warned against that guidance then and we’ll still denounce it today,” said Zach Shamberg of Pennsylvania Health Care Association. The Wolf Administration says the “must” sentence is just one sentence. That the full guidance also required nursing homes to have proper safeguards before taking COVID patients. Shamberg admits he told his members that if they can’t admit safely, don’t admit at all — order or no order. “We were clear with our members if you don’t have the PPE if you don’t have the testing and staffing if you can’t cohort then do not accept COVID-positive patients at risk and it puts care in jeopardy,” Shamberg said.
ah so easy to say no? Well, I remember back in the 1990s when our nursing home was being badgered by a bureaucrat to admit a patient with a wound infected by VRStaphAureus, a staphlococcus germ that could not be cured with any known antibiotic.
We had several diabetics with open wounds in our nursing homes, so we did not want to risk their wounds being infected with this germ: But the bureaucrat insisted that we could prevent the spread if we followed the guidelines.
But we knew from experience this was not true. Even if staff followed guidelines, the germ could easily spread through the common areas (unless of course you want to put everyone in the nursing home in solitary confinement).
With covid, it was worse, because many news reports showed that the nursing homes lacked enough PPE...and then there is the fantasy that ignores the reality of nursing homes, where often semi trained and overworked staff care for the elderly.
so exactly why is this bozo essentially hired by the Biden administration to oversee public health?
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and why are these two low level officials, one that is posited to work for green energy and the other who oversees public health, being sent to France to the Bastille day celebration?
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when I said my prayers, the Lord told me to stop being snotty and pray for this hurting person.
we have seen this: A lot of elders dying of heart problems, I suspect from poorly controlled diabetes or Blood pressure during the epidemic.
notice at 13 minutes in he discusses what really lowered the death rate: Nutrition and improved living conditions.
We have seen a lot of elders dying at home (something he notes). they were chronically ill but why didn't they go to the hospital? I have gotten several requests for money to go to the nearby city for stroke care, suggesting stroke was the cause and maybe they died there, or were sent home to die. But most of the elders dying at home seem to be the chronically ill. For example, Joy's mom who was slowly dying of Parkinson's disease who died two months after her husband died of a massive stroke...
As for delay in diagnosis: Yes, Joy lost a nephew because he didn't see a doc when his cancer came back, and he delayed treatment for 6 months.
... I have read about cases in the west in the past, but usually they were in travelers and didn't spread.
So why now? and guess what? Monkey pox is being spead via orgies in the west. Half have had STDs in the last year, so these men know they are at risk for STDs, meaning they didn't stop their high risk behavior.
I am so old that I remember when docs used to test ladies in brothels, or close those who were found to spread STD/s... they also routinely raided and closed places of hookups because of the threat of disease, but after the Stonewall riots and lots of propaganda, that might be forbidden.
I remember having a strong man cry when I was taking his family history: as he related how his son had died as a young adult of sickle cell disease.
Sigh. He didn't recognize me (all white lady doctors look alike) but I recognized him as the uncle of our next door neighbor, who had related the story to me asking about the chance he might pass the gene to his own children..
Racism does exist in medicine, and one example is how sickle cell disease has been ignored by much of medicine and the press. We have fund raisers for Muscular dystrophy but not for sickle cell disease.
And some of the health disparties between black and white population in the US is from this disease.
Sickle cell disease is one of the inherited hemoglobinopathies that are more common in certain ethnic groups (mainly but not only black, and Mediterranean ethnics)
The term sickle cell disease includes different genotypes of homozygous HbS sickle cell anemia (SS) and the double heterozygote states of sickle hemoglobin C disease (SC), sickle beta plus thalassemia (Sβ+Thal), sickle beta zero thalassemia (Sβ0thal), sickle cell anemia with alpha thalassemia (SS αthal), and sickle cell anemia with high fetal hemoglobin (SS+F).2
The treatment was hydration to prevent sickle cell crisis: where low oxygen levels cause the blood cells to change shape to a sickle, and clog the small blood vessels.
Since many end up with a destroyed spleen, we gave them penicillin (and now pneumonia vaccine) and kept an eye out for other bacterial infections like salmonella that can be fatal.
later, it was discovered the hydroxyurea helped prevent sickle cell crisis by raising the percentage of cells with fetal hemoglobin.
Background: A baby has fetal hemoglobin, which carries oxygen at a lower level than ordinary hemoglobin because the oxygen in utero is lower than you get from breathing on your own, but this gradually disappears after birth. This does not sickle, and if you have enough of this, your blood oxygen stays higher and you are less likely to have a sickle crisis from stress/dehydration etc.
Why does this gene survive when it is fatal? well, because those with one gene for Sickle anemia and one gene for ordinary blood aka "sickle cell trait", are less likely to die of malaria. Thalessemia is another blood disease that has some malaria immunity, but if you get a double gene it can kill you.
In the past sometimes we would transfuse people to give them better percentage of less vulnerable blood cells, but this could lead to iron overload and liver damage.
more recently, stem cell and bone marrow transplant offer a cure, but this is expensive and dangerous and not everyone is able to get this treatment.
and in the past, if you had a woman with sickle cell disease or other similar blood problems, it was considered a medical reason for abortion (although now with modern medicine the risk is smaller).
The possible good news is that using CRISPR, it might be able to actually use one's own cells to replace the abnormal hemoglobin with the fetal hemoglobin gene. CRISPR is a way to cut and paste things into genes.
This more easily readable article on FreeThink explains what is being done, and that the experimental treatment was found to still be working after three years.
(headsup from Instapundit)
CureSickle website has more information on the disease.
cross posted from my regular blog.
