Coffee and some pondering....

From Dr. P

In early 1976, Army doctors at Fort Dix noticed an unusual cluster of severe respiratory illnesses among recruits, including one sudden death, and laboratory testing revealed the culprit was a swine‑origin H1N1 influenza strain closely related to the 1918 pandemic virus. Federal health officials feared it could spark a catastrophic pandemic, so the U.S. government launched an unprecedented nationwide vaccination campaign to immunize the entire population.

But the vaccination program was halted because health officials detected a significant increase in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) among people who received the vaccine. Once this risk became clear, the government suspended the vaccination campaign until further investigation.

The 1976 swine flu vaccination campaign was never resumed because the perceived threat of a pandemic disappeared, while the risks of continuing the program became clearer-making the cost-benefit balance no longer justify mass vaccination. The Fort Dix virus never spread beyond the base, and eventually officials concluded the emergency had effectively passed.  

 

 

From Wikipedia

In 1976, an outbreak of the swine flu, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 at Fort Dix, New Jersey caused one death, hospitalized 13, and led to a mass immunization program. After the program began, the vaccine was associated with an increase in reports of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), which can cause paralysis, respiratory arrest, and death. The immunization program was ended after approximately 43 million United States citizens had been administered the vaccine.[1]

Richard Krause, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1975 to 1984, writes that the government response to the swine flu outbreak was considered to be too fast.[2] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states, "Those who received the 1976 swine flu vaccine had a slight increased risk for developing GBS of approximately one additional case of GBS for every 100,000 people who got the swine flu vaccine."[3]

The vaccination campaign has been characterized as a failure that is partially responsible for Americans' hesitancy to trust vaccines in the present day.

 

 

 

 

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Insane story: Far-left Democrats have HALTED the painting of a mural honoring slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Providence Rhode Island, claiming it is somehow "pro-Trump."

The Democratic mayor is calling for the mural to be completely removed.

The party of "inclusion" and "tolerance" once again proves to be filled with spite and rage...
 

 

 

 

 

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NYC Mayor Mamdani hosted an Islamic prayer at Prospect Park on Friday, with loudspeakers broadcasting the ritual across the area so non-Muslim residents had no choice but to hear it.

He said he’s not trying to respect his non-Muslim constituents—he’s making them experience his ideology. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cranky coffee this morning....

 

 

 

A 50-year-old Tennessee grandmother named Angela Lipps spent five months in jail after facial recognition software wrongly linked her to crimes in North Dakota — a state she says she has never visited.

She was arrested at gunpoint by U.S. Marshals while babysitting four children at her home in Elizabethton.

Lipps was held for 108 days without bail and flown to North Dakota on felony fraud charges related to someone using a fake U.S. Army ID to withdraw money.

Her attorneys provided records proving she was in Tennessee at the time of the alleged crimes. She said the case fell apart after just five minutes of questioning.

She was released on Christmas Eve after the charges were dismissed. Fargo’s police chief later admitted investigators made multiple errors but offered no apology. 

 

 

 

 

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Magisterial District Judge Hanif Johnson, who became Pennsylvania’s youngest-ever judge when he was elected in 2019 at 26, is now the subject of an active investigation by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office after he shot a 10-month-old puppy on March 10.

 

 

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This was from Gary Brecka:  ".... For the fist time, hospitals are being pushed to move away from ultra-processed, sugar-loaded foods…and toward real, nutrient-dense, protein-forward meals that actually support healing.

Led by @seckennedy and @drozcms this is the beginning of a system finally acknowledging what we’ve known all along: Food isn’t just fuel. It’s information. It either heals you or it harms you.

I’ve seen patients fighting for their lives being fed soda, jello, and processed food…while their bodies were completely depleted of the nutrients they actually needed to survive.

That’s not healthcare.
That’s the problem.

This is how we start to reverse chronic disease, not with another prescription, but by fixing the foundation."

Real food. Real nutrients. Real change. 

 

 

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 “We’ve seen God do a miracle here”.  An innovative neighborhood for the formerly homeless is now open 25 miles south of Dallas. @ourcalling gave us a tour. I was so touched by what a new resident told us about how he is impacted. Phase 2 will include a library, chapel, and cafe, as well as infrastructure to eventually support 500 small homes.

 

 

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From Ms. Informed PharmD: 

Have you heard people arguing that 1 in 5 children died prior to vaccines? 👀😬

“Just look at all the child graves!” 💔

“Your child doesn’t need to be vaccinated. But don’t be upset when they are 6 feet under.”🤯

This is a common misunderstanding of infectious diseases and the timeline of vaccines and “modern medicine”.

It is true that in 1900, 1 in 5 children died before the age of 5! This was mainly due to infectious diseases like pneumonia, dysentery, cholera, pertussis, measles, and streptococcus.

But the mortality for all of these diseases dropped 90-98% BEFORE a vaccine or antibiotic was available for said disease! Some still don’t have antibiotics: ahem…dysentery and cholera!

Why the major reduction in mortality between 1900 and the 1960s, when most vaccines came out?

Better understanding of disease transmission:
Clean water
Sewers and septic (accolades to engineers)
Trains transporting fresh food
Food and water quality standards
Housing regulations (no more slums, better ventilation, occupancy laws)
Workplace safety (age requirements, limited hours, breaks, and ventilation standards)
Horses (and manure) replaced with clean automobiles
Handwashing and quarantine! Can you believe physicians used to not wash their hands between patients or going from the morgue to the live patients?!!

Can you think of more?

To be fair, vaccines have reduced the number of cases of modern diseases (though those were also heading down as well). Antibiotics are often necessary and life-saving.

I am not saying there is no role for either (that isn’t true at all), but I am pointing out the obvious that people like to disguise in their narrative. It is technically true that 1 in 5 children died before vaccines. What they leave out is that vaccines had little to do with the dramatic improvement in survival.

Not medical advice. Just informed consent and personal opinion. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few things to ponder over your morning coffee... including one I have no words for... so I just cut and pasted it...

Pittsburgh police were told to stand down and not help ICE agents while an illegal alien was fighting and kicking them during an arrest outside Zone 3 station.

The Democrat-appointed police chief Jason Lando issued the order, threatening discipline if officers stepped in. It’s the kind of story that leaves people stunned—federal agents getting attacked and local cops forced to watch. This raises serious questions about priorities and safety in the city right now. 

 

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 Rep. Pramila Jayapal is calling for taxpayer-funded reparations for illegal immigrants.

It’s not enough that Democrats already provide them with housing, health insurance, SNAP benefits, education, and debit cards.

Now they want to pay them cash simply for coming here illegally.

This latest demand shows exactly where the priorities of some Democrats lie, and it’s not with American citizens who are already struggling with high costs and crime linked to the border crisis.

 

 

 

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Minnesota fraud case takes a major turn as Ikram Mohamed pleads guilty to wire fraud in a scheme stealing over $14M from a child meal program, including $1.3M for herself. 

 

 

 

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The vets who are taking care of Rosy, the cat who was raped by a migrant in Rome, has released an update on her current condition. Here is the update with English translations.

Follow @JoeyMannarinoUS if you want to fight against the mass migration & progressive mind-virus that’s gnawing through the guts of Western Civilization like a plague of locusts.